Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: NEW YORK CITY
Matches Found: 1077

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BOWERY GALS, 1850", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I was lumbering down de street
Last Line: "chorus: den de bowery gals, etc"
Subject(s): "bowery, New York City;


"EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, 1783", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They come!-they come!-the heroes come
Last Line: "and bless, oh! Bless america!"
Subject(s): American Revolution;freedom;new York City - Revolutionary Period;peace;victory; Liberty


"FANNY ELSSLER, 1840", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the clock has struck, we mean st. Paul's"
Last Line: "in mazy beauty only clad, / she moves-we're mad!"
Subject(s): "ballet;dancing & Dancers;elssler, Fanny (1810-1884);new York City - 19th Century;


"THE TWEED RING, 1868", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great moguls of gotham! Their proud purses
Last Line: Sleeps in the throttles of this ruthless three
Subject(s): "depressions, Economic;income Tax;money;social Classes;tammany Hall, New York City;tweed, William Marcy [boss] (1823-78);wealth;" Recessions;caste;riches;fortunes


14TH STREET WAS GUTTED IN 1968, by CHERYL CLARKE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For themselves %endangered %or extinct
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; New York City; U.s. - Race Relations


63RD AND BROADWAY, by REUBEN M. JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My hotel room's small
Last Line: And the city where I am happiest %alone
Subject(s): New York City


96 AND B'WAY, by FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One a.M. %two cops
Last Line: Four plea bargains, three sentences $six months/one year
Subject(s): New York City


A BALLAD OF CLAREMONT HILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roar of the city is low
Last Line: You have made my life more sweet, on the edge of claremont hill?
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): New York City; Patriotism; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


A BALLAD OF DEAD GIRLS, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce had they brought the bodies down
Last Line: To lock his doors again.
Subject(s): Child Labor; New York City; Social Protest; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


A BALLAD OF ST. VITUS, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girls fidget with their fans. Scarce heard
Last Line: Prince vitus stalks along broadway!
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Dancing & Dancers; Vitrus, Saint (3rd Century)


A BROADWAY PAGEANT, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the western sea hither from niphon
Last Line: They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake libertad.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea
Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen.
Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves


A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader
Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


A DREAMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a little boy who made believe
Last Line: The world believe his make-believes were true.
Subject(s): Imagination; New York City; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


A FAUN IN WALL STREET, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shape so furtive steals along the dim
Last Line: Hymettus and the hills of hellas rise.
Subject(s): Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City


A FIFTH AVENUE PARADE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this silent, dark crowd
Last Line: Machines and armies sensitive as souls.
Subject(s): Funerals; New York City; Parades; Triangle Factory Fire (1911); Women; Burials; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


A FORGOTTEN BARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dim nook beneath the street
Last Line: Some book of mine be housed and read?
Subject(s): Books; New York City; Poetry Readings; Reading; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block
Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out.
Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The


A LEGEND OF MAIDEN LANE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas dusk in the dale, but the clover ...
Last Line: "as a sweete, wholesome laugh from ye hearte of a mayde!"
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Temptation; Work; Workers


A LILT IN FALL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown of her eyes in the oaken leaf
Last Line: Oh, all the world shall sing of her!
Subject(s): Autumn; New York City - Dutch Period; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs


A RAID OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up! Bully boys of the nepperhan!'
Last Line: Peace rules the vale of the nepperhan.
Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; War


A RHYME ABOUT AN ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING SIGN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look on the specious electrical light
Last Line: That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City; Signs & Signboards


A SCANDAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the inlet's ebb and rise
Last Line: "I firmly believe that the tale was true!)"
Subject(s): Defamation; Marriage; New York City - Dutch Period; Slander; Libel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet
Last Line: My mermaiden!
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean


A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you
Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SPRINGTIME PILGRIMAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feet on the hills and heads in the sky
Last Line: Here in the hollow of tarrytown.
Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Spring


A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where enormous shadows creep
Last Line: He was john jones, son of john jones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Graveyards; Death - Babies


A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


A SUMMER SUMMARY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I, lying in a grot
Last Line: What care I how bad they be?
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


A SWEETHEART: THOMPSON STREET, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Queen of all streets, fifth avenue
Last Line: I am called liberty!
Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Streets; Liberty


A TRIAL IN NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who have chafed at the law's delays
Last Line: "verdict for plaintiff. Said beer was good."
Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Trials


ABOVE THE CITY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know our office on the 18th
Last Line: True relationship
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Empire State Building, New York City


ADDRESS FOR THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hang out our banners on the stately tower!
Last Line: Friends, lovers, listeners! Welcome one and all!
Subject(s): New York City - Theaters


ADIOS, VAYA CON DIOS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: (scene:
Last Line: A kiss on each cheek to soften the blows
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE WALDORF-ASTORIA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fine living...A la carte??
Last Line: Reservations: telephone el. 5-3000
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Variant Title(s): Come To The Waldorf-astori
Subject(s): African Americans; Waldorf-astoria Hotel, New York City


AENEAS AT NEW YORK, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have sir said it well but I have if
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; New York City


AFTER THE PLAY, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The great gold room is heavy with the scent
Last Line: Yet this day twenty thousand men have died.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians; New York City - Theaters; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists


ALPHABET LETTERS, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bronx, in brooklyn and in new york city
Last Line: For the card clubs and boy scout troops to which they belong
Subject(s): Family Life; Jews - United States; New York City


AMARANTH AND MOLY, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night we bailed out jolene from riker's island
Last Line: And jolene was not only amaranth and moly, she was poetry %leaping the turnstiles of another century
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers


AMERICA, by STEPHEN SONDHEIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Puerto rico, you lovely island
Last Line: Everyone there will have moved here
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


AMERICAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We gave birth to a new generation
Last Line: Word, american, america!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


AMERICAN ACTRESS (1907-1961), by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anna may wong
Last Line: Speaking chinese %with american accent
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


AMONG THE MISSING, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know me? I am the ghost of gansevoort pier
Last Line: Disclosures of the kind I do so well, %I with the other ghosts am laid at last
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


AN APRIL ROMANCE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crystal spears of slantwise-driven rain
Last Line: The princess daffodil, of trembling gold.
Subject(s): April; New York City - Dutch Period; Rain


AN EVENING WALK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the clash and clang of cars
Last Line: The wraith of aaron burr!
Subject(s): Burr, Aaron (1756-1836); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


AN IVORY MINIATURE, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When state street homes were stately still
Last Line: This woven wreath of rhymes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Murray Hill, New York; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


AN OLD BUILDING ON HUDSON STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was an old building
Last Line: Coming closer, trying to hear
Subject(s): New York City – Buildings


AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast
Last Line: Of the dream is place.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.)


AN OLD ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In days that were- no matter when
Last Line: The road that leads not anywhere.
Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Paths; Trails


AND AS FOR MAN, by LOREN EISELEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the railroad yards, leaving the city of darkness
Last Line: They will start to climb then, they will have had enough of waiting, and as for man, he will not be
Subject(s): Farewell; New York City; Railroads


AND IF I SAID 'MING' TO YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Would you hear me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


AND SO MANHATTAN BECAME AN ISLE OF JOY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not know the name of the last chief of the manhattan indians
Last Line: Boy, is my face red!
Subject(s): New York City


ANDERSONVILLE SHACKLES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It took a piece of luck %then some real evil doin'
Last Line: Our photograph to the wall %cripples out on a picnic
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


ANNIE MCSORLEY: 1. IN PASSING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I never entered your pub %not then, but I do now
Last Line: Then that ceaseless staring %what wasteful god is this?
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


ANNIE MCSORLEY: 2. IN CONFESSION, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will tell you this %in the tompkins market
Last Line: I'll get will's ghost %to hear truth yet
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


ANNUNCIATIONS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Robbed of titian at the national gallery
Last Line: Forgive me, forgive me-I am not without sin
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ANOTHER POEM (NEW YORK REVISITED), by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spirits fill the spirit of the classic air- %one is jeremiah towle's perhaps
Last Line: A voice remains. But nonetheless I direct it %and to such a tiny pinnacle
Subject(s): New York City


APRIL IN NEW YORK, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vapor is curling from the manhole
Last Line: As if her life depended on it
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


ARAB, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Allah be praised
Last Line: Victory, %your %name!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ARGUMENT RESUMED; OR UP THROUGH TRIBECA, by THOMAS M. DISCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It may not be forever
Last Line: Glows among other peaches in the fruitbowl. %such and no other is the soul
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ARRIVAL AT KENNEDY, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reduce the supply while the demand stays constant and the
Last Line: When freedom meant driving a car over a cliff & jumping out at the last possible moment
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


ASIDE FROM THE TREES IN COLUMBUS PARK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Forgetting the fan-shaped leaves of wind %and ripple
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ASSEMBLY: HARLEM SCHOOL, by EUGENE T. MALESKA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My country, 'tis of thee
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Schools


AT HALF-PAST FIVE; A FEBRUARY FANCY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a common dream enough
Last Line: As night came down at half-past five.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


AT MY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, a free-thinker, who
Last Line: Merge-when I kiss him it is as if %I were kissing myself goodbye
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: To live a hero, then to stand
Last Line: Still helps to make them loyal, strong, and free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Droch
Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Heroism; Statues; Washington Square, New York City; Heroes; Heroines


AT THE FILLMORE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The music was going on
Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City


AT THE FILLMORE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The music was going on
Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City


AT THE FRICK, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before a grotto of blue-tinted rock
Last Line: Of the wind's brother francis in the flesh
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bellini, Giovanni (1430-1516); Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Frick Museum (new York City); Paintings And Painters; Saints


AT THE NIGHT GAME (FLUSHING, QUEENS), by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like lyrics from a lost land
Last Line: Love is a distant whisper %and a listening in
Subject(s): Games; Queens, New York City; Sports


AT THE SHRINE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pale italian peasant
Last Line: Are sold on barclay street.
Subject(s): Immigrants; New York City; Prayer; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


AT TRINITY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where wall street's head from full broadway
Last Line: Where peace sole reigneth.
Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; New York City; Trinity Churchyard (new York); Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 7 (THE DREAM-SITE), by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some roof-top, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled
Last Line: Known and unknown %living its life
Subject(s): New York City


AUTHOR IN MCSORLEY'S CIRCA 1970, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In vast childhood time %always tomorrow to tell
Last Line: In just such sawdust design %she will speak her truths
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around
Last Line: In my own small commonwealth
Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps


AUTOBIOGRAPHY: NEW YORK, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not to be bought for a penny
Last Line: And along the streets of los angeles
Subject(s): New York City; Social Commentaries


AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE NEW WORLD, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek
Last Line: Our little lane, what a kingdom it was! %oi weih, oi weih
Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


AWAKING IN NEW YORK, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Curtains forcing their will
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


AWAY FROM TOWN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High-perched upon a boxcar, I speed, / I speed, to-day
Last Line: He longs for a place to stretch in, he hankers for country cheer.
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Homeless; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


BABUSHKA FROM CHERNOBYL, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amya, from chernobyl I am %there I sell the vegetables
Last Line: Yes, with pocks %and black weeps
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BACKSTAGE AT THE FILLMORE, by ELAINE DEMAKAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swimming by me was a man
Subject(s): Fillmore (music Hall), New York City


BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: After you finish your work
Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Urban Life


BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After you finish your work
Last Line: Pouring orange into grape and grape into orange forever
Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City)


BALLADE OF BARRISTERS, by CHAUNCEY CLARK STARKWEATHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the shy, sweet face that I saw this morning
Last Line: And the rattle of broadway never is still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Starkweather, C. C.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Law & Lawyers


BARTHOLDI'S PHAROS, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Manhattan bay in glory lay
Last Line: And only art is glory!
Subject(s): New York City - History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


BEEKMAN DOWNTOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The elevator smells of an operation
Last Line: The moment they enter the door
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight
Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


BEHIND THE CHATTER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You can have the ocean
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BELOW FOURTEENTH STREET, by GERALD STERN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere above fourteenth he pulled up his shirt sleeves
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


BELOW FOURTEENTH STREET, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere above fourteenth he pulled up his shirt sleeves
Last Line: The man in busy cuffs, the cat in the harness
Subject(s): New York City


BEN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day before I joined up %this was june of '43
Last Line: Only eight men in the old photo %it's a mystery, I say
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BILL MCSORLEY: 1. ON A FATHER DYING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now you join mum in calvary %separated by kitty's plot
Last Line: I fear I must raise the price
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BILL MCSORLEY: 2. CHANGES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plumbing done, the big pissers %installed, urinals they say
Last Line: For 'tis your name on the bar %mcsorley's old ale house
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BILL MCSORLEY: 3. SPEAKEASY WALLS: A MIDNIGHT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hear me, father? You do. %I feel you, moving slowly
Last Line: All the rest hanging on the gasline %wishbones of the dead growing dust
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BILL MCSORLEY: 4. A MIDNIGHT IN SUMMER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I've been old bill %a cynic, gloomy an' stingy
Last Line: I move slower as the light fades %my fingers clawed like my soul
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BILL MCSORLEY: 5. SELLING OUT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've done the deed an' sold to %o'connell who loves this place
Last Line: The reasons for the way 'tis %the silence in your walls
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BIRTH OF THE JACKELOPE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once white was I %an innocent jack %deep as the sandman
Last Line: The antelope %was left to rot %god knows where
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BLACK, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Full moonlight in central park
Last Line: Come %song, %song, %song!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BLACK SAPPHO, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly the pace
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City)


BODA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boda gathering modeling a wide display
Last Line: Atlar'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BOGDAN THE DRUNK, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know it why %I am big drunk
Last Line: I am big drunk %I know it why
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BOLLES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doing what I want to do %red bandanna round my head
Last Line: I sit in my silver flask %all ashes and a bit of bone
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


BOOK, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day arrived, %published book date
Last Line: Allowed myself to call me %beautiful
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BORGER JORIS'S HAMMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A landholding freeman, a burgher of pith
Last Line: "the mortals who wield them with power and will."
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Gnomes; Iron & Steel Industry; New York City - Dutch Period


BORICUA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are a people
Last Line: Lovers who love %to love respect
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BOWERY, by CHARLES SUMNER HOYT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! The night that I struck new york, I went out for a quiet
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; New York City


BOWERY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bums are the spirit of us parked in ratty old hotels
Last Line: "of your wealth, the long hours filled
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bowery, New York City; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


BOWERY, by LUCY MAROULLETI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spare a quarter
Last Line: Is what counts for you %and for me,a s human beings
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City; Poverty


BOWERY BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I %prophesy
Last Line: Okay. %quit. %mad. %stop
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack
Subject(s): Bowery, New York City


BOWERY BUMS, by CHARLES PLYMELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see their tattered faces changing in the flame
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Bowery, New York City


BOWLING GREEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pleasant breadth of open space
Last Line: The city's heart is bowling green.
Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Cities; New York City - Colonial Period; Peace; Urban Life


BOWLING GREEN, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the city's rushing throng
Last Line: On the green.
Subject(s): Bowling Green, New York City; Leisure; New York City - Dutch Period


BOYHOOD, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind our puerto rican santurce
Last Line: We kept the secret
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BRAVA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They kept on telling me
Last Line: Is full of premature short- %comings
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BREAD, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come walk the streets of the bowery where time is not
Last Line: Bundles of raggedy andy dolls %and tell me you care
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BREAD #2, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black voices hit the air
Last Line: Archie shepp's fire escape %a prostitute's window
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


BROADWAY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On this day of brightest dawning
Last Line: Stern and silent, through broadway!
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault
Last Line: The jewel of love for us
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


BROADWAY, by MARK DOTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under grand central's tattered vault
Last Line: Are replenishing the jewel of love for us
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


BROADWAY, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How like the stars
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


BROADWAY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall never forget you, broadway
Last Line: In the dust of your harsh and trampled stones.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the quiet hour; the theaters
Last Line: A strain of music thru an open door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


BROADWAY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What hurrying human tides, or day or night!
Last Line: Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson!
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


BROADWAY LIMITED, by PEG CARLSON LAUBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How many bobbysoxers did it bear
Last Line: At least I tried, at least I tried, at least I tried.'
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


BROADWAY'S CANYON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is like the nave of an unfinished cathedral
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities


BRONX, 1818, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat me down upon a green bank-side
Last Line: And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; New York City - 19th Century


BROOKLYN BRIDGE TOWERS (AS UNCONNECTED), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother! Are you waiting
Last Line: Is the charioteer!
Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


BROWN, OF GRACE CHURCH, 1864, by PETER MARIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O glorious brown! Thou medley strange
Last Line: The pew, the ball, the hearse, the wine!
Subject(s): Grace Church, New York City; New York City - 19th Century; Saints


BRYANT PARK, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think it is its location
Subject(s): Bryant Park, New York City


BUILDING 520, BELLEVUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Building 520 at bellevue is a temple
Last Line: When I signed the form she took me out into the light of day
Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Morgues; Suicide


BURLESQUE ADDRESS; ON OPENING OF NEW PARK THEATRE, 1821, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, / enlighten'd as you are, you all must know
Last Line: The lord bless beekman and john jacob astor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City - 19th Century; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life


BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom'
Last Line: Fore the sun went down!
Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


CAFE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dry %roasted %out %of %sun
Last Line: Light %mmmm %cafe %sabor
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. BILLIE'S BLUES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their red lamps make a childlike stab
Last Line: Him. Sounds universal to me
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; New York City; Singing And Singers


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. IMPRESSION, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brightness of the may five o'clocks
Last Line: Starched shirt collar scratches slightly
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. SPRING AND SUMMER, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only three seasons in this city, really
Last Line: Leaving my city and the people behind
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. TWO PARKS, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sundays the park-fast opposite
Last Line: An image of blind, of minute, indefatigable purpose
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night swallows up everything but doesn't
Last Line: A word shine through the white noise of the world
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. BY FIRELIGHT, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three heats sting us almost back from numbness
Last Line: Drank at a fire, silenced by separate dreams
Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. MIDNIGHT WALK, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Biography repeats itself. Couples break
Last Line: Are simpler now, really. Just what's wrong with them
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. NINE TO FIVE, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first days of the new year go on trial
Last Line: A halftone photograph of january
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. SOME NEW RUINS, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Certainly a revolution hardens
Last Line: The ambiguities speak for themselves
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JANUARY. TOKYO WEST, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eating out alone, one makes solitude
Last Line: I belong. They swim forward to greet me
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. BIKE RIDE, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I brake to talk to m. -- on top of his van, installing a skylight
Last Line: Saying good-bye. End of summer
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. BIRTHDAY LUNCH, AUGUST 14, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some birthdays seem to say more than others
Last Line: And shows by shining life is still awake
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. CITY ISLAND, PELHAM BAY PARK, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We keep meaning to visit pelham manor
Last Line: We stare. We wonder why we came back here again
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. DECLARATION, JULY 4, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It enters its second hundredth
Last Line: To be self-evident: that all men
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. FIRE: THE PEOPLE, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toplight hammered down by shadowless moon
Last Line: An offered covenant -- love that gives them each a name
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. SUMMER VERTIGO, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight ushered in still so late
Last Line: So far denied to you
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. SUNDAY MORNINGS IN HARLEM, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overcast skies I never welcome
Last Line: Of a drawing, a tattoo it still hurts to touch
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. AFTERNOON, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scudding clouds give happenstance to the walls
Last Line: See, that there always be one of this day
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. AIR: THE SPIRIT, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Real but departed, like remembered clouds
Last Line: The world has become manageable again
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. ANOTHER YEAR, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving west on the l.I.E. Somewhere in
Last Line: And failure, at last, to be solved, repaired?
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. FIFTY-SEVENTH ST. AND FIFTH, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard-edged buildings; cloudless blue enamel
Last Line: For better or worse, the ground rules. A fate
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. ORLANDO FURIOSO .. PUPPET, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A painted flat as houselights dim becomes
Last Line: Orlando, sword aloft, speak: what happens next?
Subject(s): New York City; Puppets


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. PHOTOGRAPHS OF OLD NEW YORK, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They stare back into an increate future
Last Line: The human fate given a human face
Subject(s): New York City


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: OCTOBER. SHORT STORY, A COVENANT, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Together again under the same roof
Last Line: All make toward engulfment, doomed; and joyful
Subject(s): New York City


CANTE JONDO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Segovia says lorca was killed
Last Line: Homosexuals die violent deaths, segovia %says, playing a bach fugue on his guitar
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CANTONESE OPERA AT SUN SING THEATER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Diamonds glitter in black hair
Last Line: The rumble of the night train to brooklyn
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CARNEGIE HILL BIRDLORE, by GRACE SCHULMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today a robin hopped between stalled cars
Last Line: From scant but lustrous rooms, our residence
Subject(s): Birds; New York City


CATALPA TREE ON WEST TWELFTH STREET, by AMY CLAMPITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While the sun stops, or
Last Line: And perfume of an all %too terminable process
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City


CEILING HAIKU, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two coconuts hang %gifts from gaugin to big john
Last Line: Slaves and sailors lashed bloody %mouthing cotton seas
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


CELEBRATING MY BIRTHDAY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This week, my life took a turn. I'm not ailing. But then, who knows
Last Line: After I survive what it's not
Subject(s): Birthdays; Greenwich Village, New York City


CELEBRATION, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bravo for wondrous circumstance
Last Line: Celebrate the one asian american in the crowd
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little lake, sequestered from the wind
Last Line: And mammon yields arcadia a day.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City


CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Buildings above the leafless trees
Last Line: The world is waiting for the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City


CENTRAL PARK WEST, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shakes the pavement, city traffic
Last Line: The avenue its long, cold face
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Cities; Traffic


CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: June already, it's your birth month,
Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open!
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?'
Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time
Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


CHARNEL GROUND, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upstairs jenny crashed her car & became a living corpse, jake sold grass, the w
Last Line: With words: 'the whole point seems to be the idea of giving away the giver.'
Subject(s): Aging; New York City


CHAUL, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chinese %silk
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHELSEA, 1860, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When old canute the dane
Last Line: From chelsea's student train.
Subject(s): Churches; Hudson River; New York City; Cathedrals; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


CHINA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On west lake
Last Line: Crouching in the dark
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWN HEARTBREAK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Uncertain of the days to come
Last Line: Nights when love lit up her lanterns
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWN SIGN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet olives
Last Line: 4 for 10c
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWN UNVISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the sybil book of youth
Last Line: Chinatown, o chinatown.
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN VISITED, by GEORGE MACDONALD MAJOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: From sullen skies a cheerless rain
Last Line: "china gel no li!"
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oldtimers play pinball to quicken the heart
Last Line: You are a sight for sore eyes %I am in a state of reverie
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINATOWNJ, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And whips the pagodas of confucius square
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City


CHINESE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All %those %fa %ces
Last Line: Age %to %the %wise
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CHINESE DENTIST, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: With your apartment
Last Line: Hoping to save a few dollars
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE NEW YEAR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: See me on sunday
Last Line: As we feast for three nights
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE NEW YEAR. YELLOW CHRYSANTEMUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Follow. Oranges to cut. Shrimp chips %flowering
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since we last saw one another
Last Line: To feast on a bowl of noodles
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHINESE WOMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old woman at the window
Last Line: I hope your reverie and view %do not leave you unhappy
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHOPSTICKS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A memory of ivory chopsticks
Last Line: Like a pair of ivory chopsticks
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CHORNA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tembandumba, now an elder
Last Line: Time and time and time and time again!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're off doing what they do
Subject(s): Chinatown. New York City; Christmas; Nativity, The


CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As there are books on beehives
Last Line: A book indeed
Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France


CITIES: 7. NEW YORK, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A young amazon
Last Line: Or proud mother of new and mighty tomorrows.
Subject(s): New York City; Sea; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean; America


CITY HALL PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere cabot's prow was westward turned
Last Line: Unroofed beneath the sky.
Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Colonial Period; Liberty


CITY LYRICS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out, love - the night is enchanting!
Last Line: Is not more unhappy than I!
Subject(s): Courtship; New York City - 19th Century


CITY THAT DOES NOT SLEEP, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody
Last Line: The lying goblets, and the poison, and the skull of the theatres
Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City


CITY THAT HAS WHAT IT TAKES, by EDOARDO CACCIATORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond whipping rain and battling of eyelids
Last Line: You are a road and people cross it
Subject(s): New York City


CITY WITHOUT WALLS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those fantastic forms, fang-sharp
Last Line: Go to sleep now for god's sake! %you both will feel better by breakfast time
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): New York City


COCKROACH DREAM NIGHTMARE. BANGING, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Overturned on its back struggling. I %must reread metamorphosis
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


COLLEGE SPECIAL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plush lines the metal train, making the steel
Subject(s): Railroad Stations; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 1796, by JOSIAH SHIPPEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbia college! Alma mater! Well
Last Line: Mother, these acts in ninety-six were done!
Subject(s): Columbia University; New York City; Scholarship & Scholars; Teaching & Teachers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


COMING OF AGE ON THE HARLEM, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father would tie a life jacket
Last Line: Just carefully enough to lead us here?
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City


COMMONWEALTH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, not yet, no, not yet
Last Line: Options, maybe then, hope
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


COMMONWEALTH. COMMON POVERTY, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A visitor comes from hungary as from outer space
Last Line: We, their future, have become what they most feared
Variant Title(s): Commonwealth, Common Povert
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CONCERT: LEWISOHN STADIUM, by FRANCES M. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: So might a maid have sat in other days
Subject(s): Lewisohn Stadium (new York City); Symphonies


CONEY, by VIRGINIA SCHONBORG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's hot corn
Last Line: And franks
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


CONEY ISLAND, by FILLMORE HYDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go to coney island where the bright lights twinkle
Last Line: See a half a million faces %and you won't know one
Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Coney Island, New York City


CONEY ISLAND, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you bring me here?
Last Line: Come, let us go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight
Last Line: Forever and forever. ...
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore


CONFIANZUDA, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She touched me
Last Line: Parted and waiting %hour after dumb hour %while we in twilight %mourned
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CONSECRATED GROUND; READ AT THE NEW YORK CITY HALL, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let there be prayer and praise
Last Line: There where the deathless climb the deathless skies.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City; Independence Day; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


COOPER SQUARE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother on long island buys her son
Last Line: And beg beyond all affluence.
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


COPING SKILLS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said how sad it was
Last Line: I remember nothing
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


COUGH REMEDY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A loving gesture
Last Line: I was so tickled
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CRADLE SONG FOR MIEKO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark-eyed baby
Last Line: A home in the country
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


CRAQUEAO, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four and one half billion
Last Line: Seguro, y tu craqueao!'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CRASH; OCTOBER, 1987, WALL STREET, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passion was supposed to be great fun
Last Line: Because he's neither here nor there
Subject(s): Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City


CRIOLLO STORY, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was drunk, sunday morning
Last Line: As we had serenaded the moon
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CROSSING THE COLOR LINE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harlem %has a black belt
Last Line: Where white men %seek a little hell
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City)


CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority
Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer
Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares


CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back in new york I grab a cab at port authority
Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Immigrants; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


CRY UNCLE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say he was a revolutionary
Last Line: There's no one left to justify %his failure, to render his lifelong mission holy
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CUSTOMER HAIKU, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dirty common men %white potbelly of hot coals %lies to pump false pride
Last Line: Paint the everyday noble %eyes chasing the real
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


CYCLOPS THE SNIPER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In mcsorley's 1972 %a blustery gray paddy's day
Last Line: I can still pop 'em quiet %right there in the heart
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


DAN LYNCH, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back in the old sod I taught %history, arcane celtic secrets
Last Line: I kept seeing mum %cooking me a fry
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


DANCE OF DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The mask. Look at the mask
Last Line: Over the faulty pain of new york
Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Parades; United States


DANCING, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll go out dancing
Last Line: We danced %the night %away
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


DANCING AT THE CHELSEA, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is no longer a question of balance and yet
Last Line: Made in the aisle of an abandoned pullman.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; New York City; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DAWN IN THE CITY, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The city slowly wakes
Last Line: Vaulted above, like them with a fresh sea of blue.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DAY IN THE CITY, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead in queens lean westward from their stones
Last Line: And him as colin, awkward, forward, witty, %against the pre-cast forest of the city
Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E.
Subject(s): New York City


DAYS IN NEW YORK, by SHIV K. KUMAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I live in a garbage can
Last Line: How long will this eclipse last?
Subject(s): New York City


DECATUR'S TOAST, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up rose, triumphant, from his seat
Last Line: "our country! -- right or wrong!"
Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Heroism; Nations; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Toasts; Heroes; Heroines


DEDICATION FOR A BUILDING, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Excavation for the new
Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City


DEITER THE JUICEMAN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called me juiceman %with electrics I was the best
Last Line: My own blood got me %me, the fucking juiceman
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


DELIA (A.K.A. MARY) MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw mother's ghost last night %her wide sad eyes broke me
Last Line: That nags herself so %what ghost is this?
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


DELICIAE NOVI EBORACI, 1839, by JEDEDIAH VINCENT HUNTINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With much the soul that fetters and degrades
Last Line: Of masts and spars their blackened lines relieve.
Subject(s): Battery Park, New York; New York City - 19th Century


DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets
Last Line: Women's house of d
Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists


DEPARTURE TO THE DEPTHS OF HEAVEN, VIA GRAND CENTRAL STATION, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's closing, grand central station
Last Line: Where nothing looks particularly familiar yet is, like the hospital I can't remember, but in which I
Subject(s): Grand Central Station, New York City


DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF NEW YORK, 1813, by THOMAS EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lord supreme the basis laid
Last Line: Makes us forget where we have been.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; Quakers


DETAIL WAITING FOR A TRAIN, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The main floor of penn station, early
Subject(s): Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Death; Dead, The


DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: DEEP NIGHT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: New york deserted -- without a person
Last Line: Around the night in the sky, now toward the west
Subject(s): Abandonment; Diaries; New York City; Solitude


DIEGO RIVERA ROCKEFELLER CENTER MURAL NEW YORK CITY..., by BRIAN JOSEPH GROTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frida kahlo said %to her friend
Last Line: All the state desires %?
Subject(s): New York City; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957)


DIGGING FOUNDATIONS AT NIGHT; CORTLAND STREET, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here, where the forges sound their giant scale
Last Line: Some new aladdin's dream, scraping the very skies.
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings


DIMOUT IN HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the street young harlem
Last Line: Down the street young harlem %in the dark
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City)


DIRECTIONS FOR CARRYING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR WASTES THROUGH ..., by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter the long island expressway at brookhaven
Last Line: And look out for the crazies.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Nuclear Waste; Trucks & Trucking; Nuclear Freeze; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


DISCOVERY OF THE SECRET POWER TO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wired mobile. I don't think I %can read them
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DIVORCE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On saturdays her grandmother
Last Line: Whatever she has done, hoping %they'll forget that she must go
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN IT SEEMED THE WHOLE WORLD, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Eternal windowshoppers %we women are sometimes like children
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DOC ZORY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Big z was my old man %first gypsy violinist %to play carnegie hall
Last Line: The gypsy men bowed %weeping axes
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One partner may consult another -- james
Last Line: And chase came to the coroner and spoke:
Subject(s): Death; Letters; New York City; Undertakers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DON LUIS A. FERRE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were no paintings
Last Line: One of his dreams had said, 'yes'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


DON'T LEAVE ANY RICE IN YOUR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Needed to cook the rice with %index finger
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DONDE SE VENDEN PAVOS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old woman from el salvador
Last Line: Warm smiles and always the parting %que le vaya bien
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DOUBLE TEN (10/10 DAY), by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early morning
Last Line: The strong smell of black mushrooms
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DOWNTOWN IN A BREEZE, by CHRIS STROFFOLINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is, I think, a writhing volition in every
Last Line: And letting them flirt with you
Subject(s): Change; Wall Street, New York City


DREAM COLLECTION, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man with dashiki lips
Last Line: Two peaches beneath a tree
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


DUGGAN THE DRIFTER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stayed two years behind the bar
Last Line: To see ice cream in the desert
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


DUST ON SPRING STREET, by LOUIS GRUDIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The floor boards have a sour breath
Last Line: Fear not the man of hell, %and seize his fiery hand
Subject(s): Spring Street, New York City


DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the month when lilacs bloom
Last Line: The garments of the great ten broeck.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Legends; May (month); Nature; New York City - Dutch Period


DUTCHMAN'S QUIRK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Broadway reaches northward from fair bowling
Last Line: "is, just as I've shown you, a ""dutchman's quirk!"
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


DWARF IN UNION SQUARE WITH HAT, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cornell and burckhardt are wandering around union square
Last Line: This is the whole picture in one shot. %now crop and print
Subject(s): Dwarfs; Photography And Photographers; Union Square, New York City


EAST BRONX, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the street two children sharpen
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City


EAST BRONX, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the street two children sharpen
Last Line: Always alone and always %the sun shining
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City


EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes
Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday


EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sermons are easy
Last Line: When the highest powers fall
Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


EATING ORANGES, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: An orange eaten the chinese way
Last Line: Picks one up %sucks on it
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


EAVESDROPPING ON HOUDINI'S HANDCUFFS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Houdini was here. %those are his cuffs up there
Last Line: Fuckin' houdini. %yeah. Got away again
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


ECHOES OF THE NIGHT TRUCKS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Brave cross mott street on a %diagonal
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


EDWARD MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sensation was all. %warm milk from her nipple
Last Line: But there wasn't strength %in my lips for the suck
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight oars compel
Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!"
Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports


ELECTION RETURNS AT TAMMANY HALL, 1819, by GULIAN VERPLANCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time next may-the place, suppose
Last Line: On rockland, putnam, orange, kings.
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Tammany Hall, New York City


ELEGY FOR SCOTT LIVING IN NYC, by KAREN CARCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The next time %we did it again. Gentle
Last Line: Because what we all try %never to say is
Subject(s): New York City


ELEVATOR, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We jumped in, trusting
Last Line: Sister! He wailed, as I sank deep into the ground.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Elevators; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


EMPIRE STATE TOWER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The far lands melt to orange and to grey
Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City


EMPORIUM VERSUS NEW YORK, 1854, by JACOB BIGELOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: With head erect and stately stride
Last Line: Emporium,—not new york!
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century


EN BUSCA DEL BARRIO CHINO DE LIMA..., by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chan-chan, chunga...Chan chung
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ENCHULA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unfortunately, my new loves are
Last Line: Me tiene la vida enchula
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ENGLISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So %exquisite %general %overtones
Last Line: Growth %of %the %world
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


EPITAPH FOR ANY NEW YORKER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, who all my life had hurried
Last Line: "take your eternity,"" he said."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): New York City; Patience; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


EPITAPH FOR PETER STUYVESANT, 1682, by HENRICUS SELYNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lieth stuyvesant-stir not too deep the sand!
Last Line: Insufferable. At first too rich; at last too poor.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672)


ESQUINA DUDE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like and dislike, like the good
Last Line: You know exactly what I mean, gracias
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ESSAY: ON THE WORLD AS WILL OR WILL NOT, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accident, come / from the side of the walk I forgot
Subject(s): Essays; New York City; Taxis; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They come! They come! The heroes come
Last Line: "the toast is, 'freedom's favorite son, / health, peace, and joy to washington"
Subject(s): American Revolution;new York City; "manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;


EVENING: NEW YORK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue dust of evening over my city
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


EVERY SUNDAY WE GO TO 'JEW STREET,' ORCHARD TOWN, TO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Heads, one-armed, even one naked bride with no nipples
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FACES, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A late snow beats
Last Line: With some ungainly dolls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FACTORIES, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere in new york city there are factories
Last Line: Pumping blood through the stillness of our arteries
Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; New York City; Work; Workers


FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I witness the blindness of faith
Last Line: When I least expect it, stuns me %with a right hook to the eye of reason
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


FALCON IN NEW YORK, by DAVID SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The falcon
Last Line: Who never learned %to hunt
Subject(s): Falcons; New York City


FANNY: 112, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere long the air of broadway or park place
Last Line: Forgot a while, and every eye on fanny
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Broadway, New York City; Theater And Theaters


FANNY: 137, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He woke, in strength, like samson from his slumber
Last Line: Gave, in the slang phrase, pearl street the go-by, %and cut,for several months, st. Tammany
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Houses; Mortgages; Theater And Theaters


FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good
Last Line: Lover no children no poetry
Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FEBRUARY, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A chimney, breathing a little smoke
Subject(s): Winter; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the stores close, a winter light
Subject(s): New York City; Evening; Winter; Aging; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sunset; Twilight


FEBRUARY THAW, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cabbie gets out of his cab in the breezeway at penn
Last Line: Today, and the police are using grappling hooks in &hopes of finding the bodies
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Travel


FEDUH THE IMMIGRANT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Feduh, they call me feduh %from ukraine I am
Last Line: I get cure, go home soon %see family %amerika, no problem
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by
Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City


FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world's running over with color
Last Line: Rises your face!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FIRE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire broke out in 1b, the garden
Last Line: But my grandmother and I were ready- %as ready as we would ever be
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


FIRST MANHATTAN, by STEVEN REESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: God's first refinement
Last Line: For an instant, our separate skies
Subject(s): New York City


FIRST OF MAY IN NEW YORK (CHATHAM GARDEN, 1825), by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: First of may, clear the way!
Last Line: Devil take the first of may.
Subject(s): May Day; Moving & Movers; New York City - 19th Century


FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough
Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say
Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among their graven shapes to whom
Last Line: The lines of halleck's name.
Subject(s): Halleck, Fitz-greene (1790-1867); New York City - 19th Century; Statues; Writing & Writers


FIVE POINTS, 1838, by LAUGHTON OSBORN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fast by the dike, where frown the granite eaves
Last Line: In laurens street, the southern side of broom.
Subject(s): Five Points, New York City; Homeless; Hunger; New York City - 19th Century


FLOATING POEM: MANHATTAN, MIDDAY, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dressed in patent leather pumps and a wool dress coat
Last Line: A wrist to take the pulse?
Subject(s): Ambulances; Death; New York City; Poetry And Poets; Women


FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress
Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


FLOWER LIFTS ON MOTT STREET, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That sings a fresh song %every dawning
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FLOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ... Early morning petal-strewn sidewalks of manhattan
Last Line: Makes a fist and throws punches at the air. Love’s no secret now
Subject(s): Flowers; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FLOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ... Early morning petal-strewn sidewalks of manhattan
Last Line: Makes a fist and throws punches at the air. Love's no secret now
Subject(s): Flowers; New York City


FOLLIES, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: December, 1971. A light snow. The taft hotel.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


FOR A LION DANCER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath bright colors of a lion mask
Last Line: Strike a strong lion's pose for me %dance into my life
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOR LI PO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They read your poem still
Last Line: We remember your middle name
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOR MY GRANDFATHER'S FRIEND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They said you were a gambler
Last Line: I wonder are they flowering still
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOR THAT DAY ONLY; NEW YORK, JUNE 11, 1883, by GRACE SCHULMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daybreak, and she left her poppy-seed roll
Last Line: The next day and the next one and the next
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


FOR THE AVERY 'KNICKERBOCKER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shade of herrick, muse of locker
Last Line: This the muse can never do!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); New York City - Dutch Period; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; United States - Dutch Settlements; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


FORT TRYON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again there's a golden haze
Last Line: Rides alone in a peaceful sky!
Subject(s): Death; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Dead, The


FOUND CHINESE POEM, 1944, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mango bird
Last Line: Sweet spirit of rice
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FOUR WINDOWS, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near grandma's tree-sconced house in brooklyn
Last Line: My fact - touches me so quick, quick as life.
Subject(s): Life; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FRANK O'SHAUGNESSY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In some woods near cologne %in cold sunlight
Last Line: My heart blew up %isn't that a fuckin' bitch
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


FRAUNCES' TAVERN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Restore, o thought, whose potent weird
Last Line: The honest love of gallant men!
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fraunces' Tavern, New York City; Memory; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Past; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


FREELY ESPOUSING, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A commingling sky
Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FROM A HIGH WINDOW , by SARA TEASDALE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a high window, this december night
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FROM A HIGH WINDOW (NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1931), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a high window, this december night
Last Line: Though I am lovely, I am not for long
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City


FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason.
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty
Last Line: Victors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York


FRUIT MUTATIONS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grape approaching lichee
Last Line: Peach approaching mango
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building
Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


GEOGRAPHICAL REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bronx!
Last Line: No, thonx!
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City


GEORGE MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beachcomber I was %my toes sinking in hot sand
Last Line: Breaking my neck in %invisible places %which, nonetheless, %had been marked
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


GEORGE MEREDITH TO MISS DIXON (JUNE 9, 1892), by HENRY W. KING    Poem Text                    
First Line: From box hill, dorking, so the heading reads
Last Line: Wrought by the glowing letters of his name.
Subject(s): Meredith, George (1828-1909); New York City; Novels & Novelists; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GHAZALS: 30, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am walked on a leash by my dog and am water
Last Line: An apple, the fat off the lamb, raw and coreless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Songs


GHOST SHIRT, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue whale swam through blue air in the basement
Last Line: From people lighting candles in front of the public library
Subject(s): History; Museums; New York City


GHOSTS OF BROADWAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wan ghost of the moon
Last Line: Who had not died!
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Ghosts; Supernatural


GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake in a giant night
Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next.
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling
Last Line: Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
Subject(s): New York City; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GIVEN IN PERSON ONLY, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tompkins square park's a mess of shopping carts
Last Line: Some common flame, or the one
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Tompkins Square Park, New York Cit


GLENN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had some genius %I did %deniro & me, when we were kids
Last Line: I wondered if it might help %to tell them I knew bobby
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 1, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A brown towhee nudges us awake with its song
Last Line: Still lazy from sleep. Feel %drafts from an open door glaze %my skin with the scent of pinon
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 2, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in an adobe womb about to be born
Last Line: Worship its bark, pray at its roots: %it yields words
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 3, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light makes fools of us
Last Line: Only to catch a glimpse of myself %in a shiny car fender %asclown
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 4, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night I am in my rights. Days
Last Line: I am condemned to recreate %the cursive shadows of the sun, coaxing thought %across the bleached pul
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 5, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday afternoon the mountains
Last Line: Time to take stock, put it all together- %sandhya on sandia-ya es dia
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 6, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this room I can see the world
Last Line: My life, long a solar eclipse, %is destined for the good side of the moon
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on
Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescued
Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music & Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001)


GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on
Last Line: For rushing to the rescue %as if you'd heard yourself performing
Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescue
Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music And Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001)


GLOSSARY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A piece of rice--term applied to a lazy person
Last Line: Duck shit green--olive green
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS FOR MY SON, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunday, leaving grand central station, at 125th street
Last Line: Your pain is white, is blinding as light [or, your pain is as blinding as white light] off chrome bu
Subject(s): Children; Language; Literary Form; New York City


GLOVES, by MARGARET RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes we did march around somewhere and yes it was cold
Last Line: The gloves are still there, in the cold, %passing from hand to hand
Subject(s): Gloves; New York City; Politics; Social Protest


GOLDEN HILL, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: East of the rumble of broadway
Last Line: On top of golden hill.
Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period


GOOFY LALA WAS THE WICKED WOMAN WHO LIVED ON ELIZABETH, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Away quickly because she threw bottles when she became %angry
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GRACE CHIMES, by MEREDITH NICHOLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead, kindly light,' I heard the glad bells ring
Last Line: And thought how god existeth everywhere.
Subject(s): God; Grace Church, New York City; Religion; Theology


GRAFFITERS, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the near %distant future
Last Line: Remembered for %whatever else %emerged'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GRAFFITI IN TIMES SQUARE SUBWAY, by HELEN BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They won't last, as those in %pompeii did
Last Line: At the train's passing, simply said %manandgod
Subject(s): Graffiti; New York City


GRAFFITO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning I had my first flying dream
Last Line: Last night described his first kill, %his first feast of dove
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GRAMERCY PARK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little park was filled with peace
Last Line: If we should dare to enter in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Gramercy Park, New York City


GRAVEYARD IN QUEENS, by JOHN MONTAGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hesitate along
Last Line: The slow pride %of a lament
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Queens, New York City


GREAT AMERICAN YELLOW POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: She heard tales about saving grapefruit skins for cooking
Last Line: Visions of ochre and citronella eluded her
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower
Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice!
Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GREEK, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking to find modern mythology
Last Line: Twenty-four hours a day %in new york
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's after or before
Last Line: All turned to dust
Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two babies sitting in the doorway of the hotel
Last Line: The sign on one doorway %se venden tortillas
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


GUERNICA IN NEW YORK, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We shall talk
Last Line: The way of love you %guernica %painted once more %in each skyscraper %in each rape %in each victim
Subject(s): Advertising; Art And Artists; New York City


HAARLEM HEIGHTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They've turned at last! Goodby, king george
Last Line: That we shall claim our own!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Harlem Heights, Battle Of (1776); New York City - Revolutionary Period


HAIRCUT, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I get off the irt in front of the schomburg center
Last Line: Dying every day
Subject(s): Barbers; Harlem (new York City)


HALF A MAN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: One cold christmas night
Last Line: You wouldn't be here %waiting for no damn bus
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HALLOWEEN CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fern seed, hemp seed, water of the well
Last Line: Take my secret thought to him and call him home again!
Subject(s): Halloween; Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace


HARE KRISHNA PEOPLE COME, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Their shaven heads. They look %like pale white ghosts
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HARLEM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to sing harlem on an ebony flute
Last Line: "rest, and dream, my dark delight!"
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Music & Musicians


HARLEM, by JEAN BRIERRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen you suffer in the midst of winters
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City)


HARLEM, by PAUL LARAQUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday's fires and tomorrow's fires
Last Line: And all the false heavens %of yesterday and today
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City)


HARLEM, by WALTER DEAN MYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They took the road in waycross, georgia
Last Line: And has not ended %harlem
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City)


HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: LAMBDA, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the mouth of the harlem gallery
Last Line: If old satchmo had never been born!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians


HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: MU, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hideho heights / and I, like the brims of old hats
Last Line: Of the indigo combo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin
Variant Title(s): The Harlem Gallery: Mu
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians


HARLEM MARY, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sing of blue-eyed mary
Last Line: Tis planted in her heart.
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City - 19th Century; Women


HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass
Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


HARLEM SWEETIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have yhou dug the spill
Last Line: Delicious, fine sugar hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City)


HAZARDS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whenever I walk in a new york street
Last Line: The driving is safer there after it's dark.
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; New York City; Cars; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HE 2-104: A TRUE PLANETARY NEBULA IN THE MAKING, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the universal clock, sagan tells us
Last Line: Blaze as one across the southern skies- %no longer crab but butterfly
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


HE CAME DOWN THE HALL WITH BLACKNESS IN HIS PUPILS,, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You leave, he will ask you to bring toothpicks the next %time you come
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HE WAS GROWING OLD, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: She wanted more
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HE WEARS A UNIFORM OF RED AND BLACK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Twenty years now. They are empty and %full of dust
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HENRY MOORE'S STATUE AT LINCOLN CENTER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After listening to durufle's requiem
Last Line: Of shapes which refuse to explain.
Subject(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); New York City; Statues; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HERALD SQUARE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You who have felt the pressure and made good
Last Line: God's sheet moves on. You would not change your places.
Subject(s): Herald Square, New York City; Hunger; Winter


HIGH WIND AT THE BATTERY, by RALPH POMEROY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The corner bank has lost a great window
Last Line: That the city is getting a needed dusting - %means that we're that much nearer to slow-coming spring
Subject(s): New York City; Wind


HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented
Last Line: "fill the air
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


HONG KONG, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into the hallway
Last Line: While we drop coins %into her plate
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


HOSPITAL WINDOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke
Subject(s): Hospitals; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I went inside, the manager said, `you don't want to live
Last Line: Sunday mornings, a bright orange football helmet that glowed like the sun.
Subject(s): Hotels; New York City; Survival; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HOW COME?, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm in new york covered by a layer of soap foam
Last Line: Who will die of soap foam
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HOW COME?, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm in new york covered by a layer of soap foam
Last Line: God help the many %who will die of soap foam
Subject(s): New York City


HOW PEARL STREET WAS PAVED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In wouter van twiller's manorial pale
Last Line: We manage the streets of the city to-day.
Subject(s): Cows; New York City - Dutch Period; Streets; Avenues


HOW SPRING CAME TO NEW YORK, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the windy dusk, and the first pale light
Last Line: "the millions woke, tingling, and whispered, ""spring!"
Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


HOW TO GET THERE, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White the october air, no snow, easy to breathe
Last Line: For a couple of hours, but I am not that person
Subject(s): New York City


HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains
Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HUDSON'S VOYAGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the ice of nova zembla, through the fogs that held
Last Line: "so unmoor, and set the tiller for the sea-road to cathay!"
Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); New York City - Dutch Period


HYMN OF THE CITY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in the solitude / alone may man commune with heaven, or see
Last Line: The vast and helpless city while it sleeps.
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century


HYMN; SUNG AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE OBELISK TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great god, to whom since time began
Last Line: Hear us, o god in heaven!
Subject(s): The Obelisk, Central Park, New York City


I ALWAYS SAY THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW YORK IN THE SUMMER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Estivation means passing the summer in a torpid condition
Last Line: Nibbling those tasty garden-fresh vegetables raised in a twelfth-floor dining alcove by hydroponics
Subject(s): New York City


I AM FRUIT CRAZY. I LOVE SIX, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Translucent skin. Spanish fruits %are feminine
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I CALL HER THE TEA LADY (TO MYSELF) BECAUSE I, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Association. She seems imported
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I DISCOVER THE OTHER WOMEN IN MY FAMILY. MY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Limited to sentences like, 'I've just eaten half %an orange at grandma's.'
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I HAVE VERY LITTLE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It grows and obeys me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


I WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To a pawnshop %one day
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IF IT IS TRUE THAT YOU ARE WHAT YOU, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Discovery of a field of chrysanthemums %in a teapot
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IL BAMBINO: BABE RUTH, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a good place %to stop and rest
Last Line: The whole damn crowd fused %into this cancerous lump
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO FAMILIAR AMERICAN TREES, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't get it about the natural world
Subject(s): New York City; Trees; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN A CORNER OF THE SUBWAY DOOR DISCOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And you in every tree
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IN BROADWAY, by VANCE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk in broadway to and fro
Last Line: I make the sign of the cross.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


IN HOBOKEN: 1., by JOEL LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The empire state building
Last Line: You ain't gonna hellenize me!'
Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City


IN HOBOKEN: 9. RIVER STREET, by JOEL LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's happening %on the other
Last Line: Of the clam broth house
Subject(s): New York City


IN LOWER NEW YORK, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Stand here with me. The throngs dissolve away
Last Line: When the calm darkness bids them rest again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN NEW YORK, by CLIFFORD BAX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood with men upon the crowded curb
Subject(s): New York City; Grief; Mankind; Crowds; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race


IN NEW YORK, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I heard a crow from home
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; New York City


IN NEW YORK, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In new york, which is a bad friend
Last Line: How bored god must be
Subject(s): New York City; Poetry And Poets


IN NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the modern world, deformed and vast
Last Line: The monstrous secret that propels the stars.
Subject(s): Calvary; Life, Modern; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN NEW YORK: 1. ON SUNDAY MORNING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far from here the church bells ring
Last Line: As she prays for her child.
Subject(s): Bells; New York City; Religion; Sun; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology


IN NEW YORK: 2. THE SONG YOU LOVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have sung the sweet songs and the sad
Last Line: Restless with words it could not sing.
Subject(s): New York City; Singing & Singers; Soul; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love
Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK, by THOMAS M. DISCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As we rise above it, row after row
Last Line: Where for weeks they will dream of our faces %drenched with an unbelievable light
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


IN ROBERT MOTHERWELL'S CAR, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above a cliff %a boy could see it
Last Line: And still don't know %what lasts of what's written
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Roads; Travel


IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


IN SEARCH OF CHINESE MADNESS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red and green doors
Last Line: Chinatown is open tonight
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IN SIMON; CATERER FOR FASHIONABLE SUPPER-PARTIES, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear simon! Prince of pastry-cooks
Last Line: And bid them twine your bust with roses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; New York City - 19th Century; Parties; Statues


IN SUSPENSE, by GEORGE BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The composition of many particulars
Last Line: Into a difficult place, though we weren't particular.
Subject(s): Travel; Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York City; Journeys; Trips


IN THE DARK BACKWARD, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How is it I was not raised
Last Line: Children, like windswept echoes from %a ghost ship, could free my grief?
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD; SELS. EARTH: STONE, BRICK, METAL, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has the shape of %a boat with the battery
Last Line: Of this place -- a question not yet answered
Subject(s): New York City


IN THE MOON OF MAKING FAT, by MALENA MORLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer has opened its bag of heat
Last Line: And the sunlight that is pushng through fibers. %and the drawn curtains
Subject(s): New York City; Summer


IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident
Last Line: Write
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums


IN THE VILLAGE, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came up out of the subway and there were
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


INTELLECTUAL, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So historically total
Last Line: And be dead %from the start
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down:
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


IRISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: March song %bobby sands irish land
Last Line: To free ireland
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ISAAK WALTON IN MAIDEN LANE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In that manhattan alley long yclept
Last Line: Thine image, isaak, pored upon a bream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Maiden Lane, New York City; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683)


ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the taste of the
Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel


IT IS THE SAME WALK, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For whom did you think it would change color?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF PEOPLE SAW HER AS SHE SAW, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Friends wrote from europe wishing her a happy %valentine's day
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ITALIAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young dude %is old dude
Last Line: So always always sing %please, blue eyes
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JAMAICAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reach their guts into the caribbean
Last Line: Good, yeah, real good!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JAMES MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was no I %in the normal way %not yet, not yet
Last Line: Even as this small shade %I move lonely near others %still seeking her touch
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JAPANESE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was ten years old in 1942
Last Line: Had he thought the japanese %had won the war
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JENNIE MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard him say it. %in the past tense. %no longer am I a beauty
Last Line: Did the clouds die? I asked. %I waited for my float dream
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 52. WINTER SKETCHES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that black ground and bushes
Subject(s): Winter; Snow; New York City; Subways; Landscape; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


JEWISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stand the pain of time
Last Line: But never, never, again
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JFK LAUGHING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was here once %right after the war
Last Line: Christmas is best %me wearing santa's hat
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JIBARO, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: End of spring harvest
Last Line: And then, the song, %cancion
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JOHN J. MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leathery horse balls %smoke off the turds
Last Line: Would rear an' I slip down %where the big wheel came
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCGRAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to play in old new york,
Last Line: "and that's his only law!"
Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Mcgraw, John (1873-1934); New York City; Sports; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


JOHN MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: But a smidgen in time %my baby body red an' wet %a kicker I was so kicked
Last Line: Real hot an' real cold %then this rollin' darkness
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 1. IN WAITING NOW, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hurly-burly of ale an' flesh %young lads out a gashing
Last Line: We must speak before leaving %this limbo
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 3. YOURS, MY SON, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pub's yours, my son, all yours
Last Line: What ye might do to the poor girl
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 4. WINGLESS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's nought here methinks %baubles to tary the mind
Last Line: I wish a ghost would pass
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 5. A WAIT FOR WIVES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Annie thought me nought %but foul an' coarse, catering
Last Line: The roaring chaos of this city %seeing no love 'cept in the young
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 6. THE MODERN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see the ladies in their glory %drinking an' smoking
Last Line: I wish a ghost could die
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 7. CHANGING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little did I know will %loved me in death so
Last Line: Where once sloan sketched me %an old man sitting at a window
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: 8. A FATHER'S BLIGHT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, will, little did I know ye %methinks a vision cramped
Last Line: O, ghosts of my loved ones %waiting right here, I am
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOHN MCSORLEY: WISHBONES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: No luck for some of our lads %so their bones shall gather dust
Last Line: Let their dust go to dust %as we living bear witness
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JOTTINGS OF NEW YORK; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh mighty city of new york! You are wonderful to behold
Last Line: For bonnie dundee, my heart it felt as light as a cork.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


JUDITH, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone in mcsorley's %fingers across old oak
Last Line: Me at this windowtable %having a moment of my life
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could take the harlem night
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs


JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could take the harlem night
Last Line: Dance with you, my sweet brown harlem girl
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing And Singers


JUNG SAYS THE SOUL IS ROUND (TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK), by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jung says the soul is round
Last Line: Over the fair round and round-freckled redhead
Subject(s): Tompkins Square Park (new York City)


KALEIDOSCOPE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chinatown
Last Line: Tie a red bow around it
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


KATE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hey! Petey the sot! It's me! %your sweet kate, ha!
Last Line: In your mind %yep, love's a killer
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


KATHERINE LORETTA MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buttery bread so warm %my favorite taste
Last Line: Warm but I cough %I cough to breathe
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


KELLY'S GENERATION, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before I went off to war
Last Line: In winter afternoons %I hear us talking %around and around %talking softly
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


KEVIN THE MAD STROKER, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved 'em, loved 'em all! %I didn't care none 'bout looks
Last Line: So they laid me down %in this field called potters
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


KINDNESS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In manhattan I learned a public kindness
Last Line: It might be better to turn us away
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Kindness; New York City


KISSING BRIDGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No roebling reared that primal way
Last Line: As then in old nieuw amsterdam!
Subject(s): Bridges; Kisses; New England; New York City - Dutch Period


KITTY MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: You being the older man %you knew the mystery
Last Line: Tugging on that thread %ravelling our fates
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


KITTY'S SUMMERING, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen e'er a sign of my kitty?
Last Line: On the south side of washington square.
Subject(s): Longing; New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


KOREAN COMMUNITY GARDEN IN QUEENS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the vacant lot nobody else wanted to rebuild
Last Line: Who stop at nothing, see life and paradise as one [or, life the one paradise they wanted]
Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock
Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Queens, New York City


L'ENVOI, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When we're pegged out for good upon our board
Last Line: I'd rather be a live centurion here.
Subject(s): Century Association (new York City)


LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip
Last Line: Unpreaching stony water. Whumppf; we're down
Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City


LANDING IN THE RAIN AT LA GUARDIA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The death-grip of the chalky clouds lets slip
Last Line: The world's fair globe, a toy. Shea stadium. %upreaching stony water. Whumpff: we're down
Subject(s): Air Travel; La Guardia Airport, New York City


LATCHKEY KID, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of butterscotch caramels
Last Line: She turns on the light %it casts a shadow across her life
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LAVENDER WINDOWPANES AND WHITE CURTAINS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lavender window panes! They are like a pedigree of nobility
Last Line: Homesick for earth
Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; United States


LE GRENIER, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is the street-the house is standing yet!
Last Line: And all the world to win, at twenty years!
Subject(s): Army Life; Broadway, New York City; Courage; Marching & Marches; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Valor; Bravery


LEARNING MY NAME, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have a dialogue, this tree and I
Last Line: I heard my name
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEAVING MY ROOMMATES IN NEW YORK, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow falls upon snow fastening its delicate hooks
Last Line: To the subliminal sounds of ermines living in the lath.
Subject(s): Homeless; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 1, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a good old-fashioned
Last Line: Gold for the holy faith, %gold for the glory of spain
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 2, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The darkness of the mines
Last Line: Into themselves like secrets %whispered only in the safety %of brown arms
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 3, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wrecked vessel washed ashore
Last Line: Splashes of blood- %blooming all over the island
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LENOX HILL, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A month from ninety, my grandmother lay
Last Line: I noticed, was the same as that of his lover
Subject(s): New York City


LETTER FROM A HOMESICK TRAVELER TO A FELLOW NEW YORKER, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you could only hear the chatter
Last Line: The wild cockatoos continue their wordless %conversation. And I envy them
Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; New York City; Travel


LETTERS, by RAY DIPALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against the most tender feelings
Last Line: The unproven place on the road or at the table on the other side %of the wall painted with a dragon
Subject(s): Hudson Valley, New York; Letters; New York City


LETTERS FROM MY SISTER, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mi querida hermanita, she'd begin
Last Line: The same nose, the same sad eyes, %the same big smiles
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LICENCIADO DON PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the year eighteen ninety-eight
Last Line: Forever imbedded in our souls
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LIFE OF JIMMY FATS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Call me jimmy %I'm not fat, I'm obese %nowhere to hide, pal
Last Line: But how's anybody to know %you know %what really happened?
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


LILACS IN THE CITY, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid the rush and fever of the street
Last Line: God's answer to the wisdom of this world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LILIES IN NEW YORK, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A drawing: smudged shadow, deep worked areas of graphite
Last Line: Open. And who could hope to draw that?
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LOEW'S BRIDGE: A BROADWAY IDYL, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For hours I stood upon the bridge
Last Line: "I leave thee love and hope."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Bridges; Broadway, New York City; Loew, Charles E.; New York City; Wall Street, New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown-skinned manhattan students take the train
Last Line: They bag their beer at pennsylvania station
Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Railroads


LORCA VARIATIONS (32) 'FIRST NEW YORK POEM', by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Science & the paradise of labor give hope to those who live
Last Line: Crowds with faded light
Subject(s): New York City


LOSING: II. FRIENDS; NEW YORK CITY, 1985, by DONNA BROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes you win
Last Line: Or mine distinquished %from any stranger's block
Subject(s): New York City


LOVE IN A BUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was born in perhaps the holland tunnel
Last Line: Human, impermanent and permanently good
Subject(s): Chicago; Love; New York City; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky
Last Line: This way, my eyes shimmering and turned %upwards
Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; New York City


LOVE SONG, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young chinese scholar writes
Last Line: The garden of peonies in your dress %was it by the pearl river
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LOVE'S CANOPY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Can of peas
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LOVERS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once loved a man downtown
Last Line: Loved me in an ancient way
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LOWER EAST SIDE: THE GEORGE BERNSTEIN STORY, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It starts on the lower east side
Last Line: To sing the grand finale: %lower east side
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Music, Popular; New York City


LOWER NEW YORK- A STORM, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White wing'd below the darkling clouds
Last Line: To all but greed and gain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): New York City; Storms; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


LOWER NEW YORK: 1. BEFORE DAWN, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time has no spectacle morn stern and strange
Last Line: Weary and still, here seems more dead than death, %aimless and empty as an idiot's mind
Subject(s): New York City


LOWER NEW YORK: 2. AT DAWN, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the dawn a hopeless thing to see
Last Line: And know, for yet another human day, %the world's dull, dreadful labor is begun!
Subject(s): New York City


LUNCH AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM, by ROGER WEINGARTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mouth reflected in the glass
Subject(s): Lunch; Russian Tea Room (new York City)


LUNCH RESPITE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friday at lunchtime: %onions, sawdust & ale
Last Line: He exits %arranging %his apron
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


LUNCHTIME AT THE FACTORY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR. MOTHER AND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Replicas of your own dust-ridden window. Lunchtime is %suddenly over
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


LUSTMORD (RETROSPECTIVE: NEW YORK SCHOOL), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the tiny bones %lie in rows on the table
Last Line: And she'd seem happy, as perhaps she is
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Exhibitions; Museums; New York City; Saint Kilda (scotland); Tourists


M'IJA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been dying to call you m'ija
Last Line: A ti todo, para eso somos amigas
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MACARONI, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis made of the flour of wheat, so they say
Last Line: And don't you forget the chianti!
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; Italian Americans; New York City; Pasta; Restaurants; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni; Cafes; Diners


MACDOUGAL STREET, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went walking up and down to take the evening air
Last Line: (truly I shall be ill unless I stop these tears!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Macdougal Street, New York City


MAD DEEGAN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the bustling sidewalk %as the last gray light slides
Last Line: The pariah dog is here %is here somewhere
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


MADAME BLAVATSKY IN NEW YORK, 1875-77, by DIANE BONDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A great russian bear' shambling
Last Line: Cretins' she had cast aside, both still %living somewhere in russia...
Subject(s): Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); New York City; Russia; Theosophy


MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers
Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life


MAGICIAN GROWING BEAN SPROUTS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Looking for the right one
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MAH-JONG PLAYERS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the halo
Last Line: Circles birds flowers %swirling through the game
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MAIDEN LANE, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down maiden lane, where clover grew
Last Line: And let us stroll down maiden lane.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MALCRIADA, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Te voy a dar una paliza, muchacha
Last Line: Into his vest pocket, and gives me %two new pennies for an eskimo pie
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MANAHATTA, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My city's fit and noble name resumed
Last Line: Coming, going, hurrying sea waves.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANGO DID NOT KNOW WHAT SHE WANTED, NOT FROM THE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Important. Afraid that she would lose her power to dream
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MANHATTAN, by PAUL MARIANI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty years, and the six-inch scar still there
Subject(s): New York City; Religion; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Theology


MANHATTAN, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty years, and the six-inch scar still there
Last Line: I come up with for questions 2 & 3 & 4
Subject(s): New York City; Religion


MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First o songs for a prelude
Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta.
Variant Title(s): Drum-taps
Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History


MANHATTAN CITY; A PICTURE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair mistress of a warlike state
Last Line: And nova-scotia only claims.
Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANHATTAN DELI, by ANTHONY TRACY    Poem Source                    
First Line: These plastic sunglasses %are cheap by consumer standards
Last Line: Clearing their throats %and naming thier dues
Subject(s): Consumerism; New York City


MANHATTAN ELEGY, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I left behind a mother, father
Last Line: New york, my city of adults
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANHATTAN ISLAND POEM, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thin river woman with a concrete star
Last Line: At night I am a jar of fireflies dying.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANHATTAN NEW YEAR, by KATE CRICHTON GREDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The whistles blow and through the city street
Last Line: The new year enters at a cottage door.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Night Clubs; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting
Subject(s): New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America


MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting
Last Line: Con edison skyscraper clock-head gleaming gold-lit at sun dusk
Subject(s): New York City; United States


MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard
Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame!
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANHATTAN: 14, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, sick of all the sorrow and distress
Last Line: "the jealous city, whispering always -- ""home!"
Variant Title(s): The City
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MANHATTAN: 9, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's greatest miracle is accomplished here
Subject(s): New York City


MANNAHATTA, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city
Last Line: City nested in bays! My city!
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MARKET STREET, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusky harlem %here in the middle west
Last Line: And I have not escaped it yet
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Market Street, St. Louis


MARRIAGE SIGNS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two incense sticks burn as one
Last Line: You drink the tea I pour for you
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MARY MURRAY OF MURRAY HILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady of belmont looked out to the east
Last Line: "kind hostess, thy bounty hath cost us too dear!"
Subject(s): Army Life; Murray Hill, New York; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Drills & Minor Tactics


MAY EVENING IN CENTRAL PARK, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lines of lamp light
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Youth


MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you
Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


MELPOMENE IN MANHATTAN, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she walked she would look back
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MELPOMENE IN MANHATTAN, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she walked she would look back
Last Line: Or into hostile crowds
Subject(s): New York City


MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I were writing on rock
Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


METROPOLITAN NIGHTMARE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning
Last Line: He pried fom the insect's jaws the bright crumb of steel
Subject(s): New York City; Termites; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


METROPOLITAN NIGHTMARE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It rained quite a lot, that spring. You woke in the morning
Last Line: He pried from the insect jaws in the bright crumb of steel
Subject(s): New York City; Termites


MEXICO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smell of tortillas and cilantro
Last Line: Fresh smell of el campo %luciernagas
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MID-LIFE, LOOKING NORTH, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tendering motes in falls of light
Last Line: Iron-lunged, a soul turning into things
Subject(s): New York City; North, The


MIDDLE DAUGHTER, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: How soft it felt
Last Line: Who leaves home only to return again
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MIDSUMMER: 5, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hemispheres lie sweating, flesh to flesh
Last Line: Rolls his bullets like beads. Glued to his own transistor
Subject(s): Summer; New York City; Hamptons, New York


MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a
Last Line: Underbrush.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The


MILK, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I flew into new york
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MINETTA WATER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deer-hoof dint and moccasin print
Last Line: Through the crumbled homes of men.
Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Hunting; New York City - Dutch Period; Streams; Creeks; Hunters


MINNIE THE CAT: 1. LAZING ABOUT, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My o my, it's me %minnie
Last Line: My grayness a presence %loping through decades
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


MINNIE THE CAT: 2. STALKING, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It came out of the shitter
Last Line: I love the skittering legs %in my mouth
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


MISYCK, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit alone here at night, listening
Last Line: Lincoln, woodrow wilson, %maybe the fat nude, too
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


MOMMY'S HUBBY, by LEO CONNELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were drinking buddies in high old time town
Last Line: Plots and perpetual flowers
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Jazz; Music And Musicians


MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lament, o muse, and heave a suspiration
Last Line: Shades of the woolworth tower!—another year!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Lament; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York


MONTGOMERY'S RETURN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How black the barge of trailing pall
Last Line: Montgomery came home.
Subject(s): Fame; Homecoming; Hudson River; Love; Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775); New York City; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MOONRISE ON MANHATTAN; FOR LOUIS H. WETMORE, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out in the harbour, silence and the moon
Last Line: In coronation on manhattan's shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Cities; Moon; New York City; Night; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime


MORNING IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the morning sun
Last Line: Brood on the rocks and the unstirring trees!
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Morning


MOSQUITO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Love song %tonight
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MOTOWN, ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fog used to bloom off the distant river
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A picnic for all soothing times
Last Line: I read o book of poems in a wheatlike meadow
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MOVIE THEATER FILLED WITH STICKY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Apartments as eyes focus on a slightly %different world
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MOVING PICTURES, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I see in movie stills
Last Line: A close-up of the hand remains. %hard. Seamed. Like a mannequin's
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MULBERRY STREET, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the festivities in the streets
Last Line: It was not likely the pope should suffer the cold, %nor truthfully, those presidents that sat upon t
Subject(s): New York City


MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian
Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America


MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian
Last Line: But no more fountains and no more rain, %and the stores stay open terribly late
Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States


MY CITY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I come down to sleep death's endless night
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MY CITY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I come down to sleep death's endless night
Last Line: To be dead, and never again behold my city
Subject(s): New York City


MY FATHER, ON THE OTHER HAND, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, on the other hand, did
Last Line: From the deep. Yet I remain curiously %inviolate: he cannot pierce my heart
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MY FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Into the sky %like a star ed their heads
Subject(s): Booksellers; Central Park, New York City; Poetry And Poets; Travel


MY ITALIAN GIRLFRIENDS DRESSED UP ON SUNDAYS IN DRESSES AND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Our separate ways on sundays
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


MY LIFE AS A BOOK OF FICTION, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With my aunt will die the secrets
Last Line: With errors, omissions, dangerous %legends and, before long,addenda- %left to me, a total stranger
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MY MOTHER CUNNING, YET INNOCENT, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not knowing then, no, not yet knowing - %trusting her to be mine forever
Variant Title(s): My Mother Cunning Yet Innocen
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MY SAD SELF, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red
Subject(s): New York City; Self; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MY SAD SELF, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when my eyes are red
Last Line: In the mind to come %where all manhattan that I've seen must disappear
Subject(s): New York City; Self


N.Y., by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My city, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender
Last Line: And thou shalt live for ever.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us
Last Line: The beefe is half raw—and the bell rings for dinner!
Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress


NATHAN HALE, by CHESTER FIRKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere beneath the thundering city's pave
Last Line: His solemn and triumphant requiem
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NATHAN HALE [SEPTEMBER 22, 1776], by FRANCIS MILES FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To drum-beat and heart-beat
Last Line: The name of hale shall burn!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); New York City; Patriotism; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NATHAN HALE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1776, by JOHN MACMULLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all alumni gather round
Last Line: Amidst the patriot band.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Capital Punishment; Hale, Nathan (1755-1776); Memory; New York City; Patriotism; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NATURALIZED CITIZEN, SELS., by CAROL J. PIERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You take the e train uptown to the modern. You are metinlg your lover
Last Line: Marks time. The kid stands there, his back to you. If he comes, you can't %tell
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City


NAVIDAD, ST. NICHOLAS AVE., by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An infant quirk of a pine
Last Line: Todo el mundo back to his side
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Hispanic Americans


NEGRO IN NEW YORK, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had forgotten so much in the south
Last Line: For this is one thing that you do not know, new york
Subject(s): African Americans; New York City


NEIGHBOR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down home / he sets on a stoop
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks


NEIGHBOR, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down home %he sets on a stoop
Last Line: Sometimes %he don't drink %true, %he just %lets his glass %set there
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City)


NEON LIGHTS THAT WARM NO ONE. HOW LONG, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Stare as if under a pond. The %irony reeks
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


NEON SIGNS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder bar / wishing well / monterey
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Negroes; American Blacks


NEON SIGNS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder bar %wishing well %monterey
Last Line: Mirror-go-round %where broken glass %in the early bright smears re-bop %sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City)


NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the horns wear thin
Last Line: Dizzy and sick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year


NEW YEAR'S EVE ON BROADWAY, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends, what are we seeking this new year's eve
Last Line: But a bursting blossom of life.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Holidays; New Year


NEW YOR I, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New yor I! Graveyard bristling with monuments
Last Line: You yearn westward toward india %you have yet to take passage for
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK, by ANDREI CODRESCU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The street of this strange metropolis
Last Line: Like the breeze of hereafter
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the violet vastness of shoreless and moaning / twilight
Last Line: The infinite hulk of the ship of my city pushes her course unreturning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


NEW YORK, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I live in a beautiful place, a city
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Metal. Granite. Uproar, racket. Clatter
Last Line: And jungle, crush, upheaval, wild absurd
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city is cutting a way
Last Line: Twill be a great place when it's done!
Subject(s): New York City; Patriotism; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't ringworm he
Last Line: Of household goods
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The low line of the walls that lie outspread
Last Line: O torrent of the living down broadway!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, new york all gussied up. So
Last Line: "arms or legs,"" she says, ""even if he were a stump"
Subject(s): New York City; Love; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by MARIE LUHRS    Poem Text                    
First Line: New york is not so different from the ocean
Last Line: A sea of granite worthy of a god.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is hot to the sea that crouches beside
Last Line: The beat of the heart of a world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by CLYDE ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tramp, tramp, a moiling, toiling tread
Last Line: A towering wilderness of steel and stone.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on
Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre.
Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O titan daughter crouching by the sea
Last Line: As april mornings overflow the skies!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK (1), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How did you find god in this city
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (2), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the pictures we are always
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (3), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each day I think I will leave
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (4), by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the 1940s
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK (FOR JAZZ ORCHESTRA: TRUMPET SOLO), by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New york! At first I was confused by your beauty
Last Line: And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the negro
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Negritude (literary Movement)


NEW YORK (OFFICE AND ATTACK), by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Beneath all the statistics
Last Line: Where the hudson is getting drunk on its oil
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Men; New York City - Revolutionary Period


NEW YORK AT NIGHT, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A near horizon whose sharp jags
Last Line: Instead the glaring, man-filled city groans below!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK AT NOON, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The city burrows toward the shade
Last Line: On the silver-bristled swine.
Subject(s): Geography; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


NEW YORK CITY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New york, it would be easy to revile
Last Line: Offers a soul to your reluctant dirt.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK CITY - 1935, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was 5 years old %it was new york december %horses pulling wagons
Last Line: And it's driver %head bowed %walking slowly %like the sad italian peasant %he was
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Accidents; New York City; Poetry And Poets


NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the freeway you can almost
Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City


NEW YORK CITY WORLD'S FAIRS 1939 AND 1964, by JUDITH BAUMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We visited the world's fair
Last Line: Shaped tent to pick him up again
Subject(s): Exhibitions; New York City


NEW YORK CLOUDS, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1963 I wrote that new york was a cloud
Last Line: And reflects it with minutes of clouds
Subject(s): Clouds; New York City


NEW YORK DAYS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis something for a poet's lip
Last Line: By brotherhood of song and pain.
Subject(s): Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers


NEW YORK IN 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two years have elapsed since the verse of s.W.
Last Line: Be what I now wish you—a happy new year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842)


NEW YORK IN A JEWISH MOOD, by JUDD TELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Big-city streets
Last Line: Under the pointing hand %of a reader
Subject(s): Jews; New York City


NEW YORK IN SUNSET, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The island city of dominion stands
Last Line: And hers the fame of babylon and tyre.
Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Seashore; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Beach; Coast; Shore


NEW YORK LOVE SONG (PART 1 - LOWER EAST SIDE), by LYDIA TOMKIW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am again, doubled over, I'm here, pretending I know what I'm doing
Last Line: I don't know how to make it stay
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Acton town manufacturing
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK MAP COMPANY (1), by JOHN YAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Acton town manufacturing
Last Line: Zanzibar courier service
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS, by JOHN S. MBITI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weak scattered rays of yellow sun
Last Line: That blanket them with transparent wax
Subject(s): New York City


NEW YORK SUBWAY, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The beauty of people in the subway
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Subway; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORK, FROM A SKYSCRAPER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my city of
Last Line: Prayer?
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers


NEW YORK: FIRST SWIM, by ASHER REICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As usual, as in the beginning, it all began with water
Last Line: To the frozen future of the american dream
Subject(s): New York City; Swimming; Water


NEW YORK: SECOND SWIM, by ASHER REICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through a lit tunnel, under the river
Last Line: And all your fears were thoroughly eroded
Subject(s): New York City; Water


NEW YORK; A NOCTURNE, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down-gazing, I behold
Last Line: Let there be light!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORKERS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere else in the country, if someone asks,
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NEW YORKERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was born here
Last Line: She lifted her lips %in the dark: the same old spark!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; New York City


NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


NIGHT IN NEW YORK, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haunted by unknown feet
Last Line: And behold, it is day!
Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime


NIGHT LIGHT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the coral night lamp
Last Line: Small beauty floods the room
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


NIGHT MOVEMENT - NEW YORK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night, when the sea winds take the city in their arms
Subject(s): New York City; Night; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Bedtime


NIRVANA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am / a clam!
Subject(s): "clams;coney Island, New York City;sea;" Ocean


NO ONE USES WORDS SUCH AS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: 78 rpm chinese records
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


NOCTURNES: 2, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the romantic contribution - that one sees oneself by perceiving
Last Line: As sheer presence
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; Hudson River; New York City


NOCTURNES: 3, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gods are fighting to stay awake
Last Line: And white light, transfixing the northeast, is discord
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; New York City; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001)


NOCTURNES: 6, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just as there is no legitimate beginning the broadway building
Last Line: Amounting to a virtual solar system racing within the confines of our orbit?
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Broadway, New York City; Buildings And Builders


NOISE METER, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: So open out and hear
Last Line: That sound that seems enough then %then is not enough
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Noises; Traffic; Violence


NOT A MOVIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well the rocked him with road-apples
Last Line: But, thank god , he wasn't dead! %and there ain't no ku klux on a 133rd
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Elections; Harlem (new York City); Racism; Southern States


NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did we in all honesty expect?
Last Line: Do they hate me
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


NOTHING TO WEAR', by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss flora mcflimsey, of madison square
Last Line: Wear!
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; New York City; Women; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NOVEMBER 4TH, 1937, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ogden nash might say, I hate intenchly
Last Line: May they be merry then as we are now.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Century Association (new York City); Literature; Writing & Writers


NOW AN OUTLANDER, ONCE A POET IN N.Y., by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The souls of lorca and crane a daily solstice
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; New York City; New York State; Poetry And Poets


NUYORICAN LAMENT, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: San juan you're not for me
Last Line: Listening for a song- %a wisp of song- %that begs deep in my heart
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


O CITY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City / o my delilght! Nourishment to the fat
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


OBIT: NEW YORK, by BRUCE FELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow came and the skeletons were covered
Last Line: And, yes, my dear, the statue of prometheus melted
Subject(s): New York City


ODE TO A PATCHWORK QUILT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hanging delicately on the wall
Last Line: The aura of times no longer
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ODE TO FORTUNE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair lady with the bandaged eye!
Last Line: T were cruelty to tumble down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Fortune; New York City - 19th Century


OEDIPUS IN HARLEM, by GERRY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yo! Muthafucker
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City)


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 11, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is that light
Subject(s): Modern Life; Empire State Building, New York City


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 3, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The emotions are engaged
Subject(s): Language; New York City; Words; Vocabulary; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


OF BEING NYMEROUS, 4, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the people of that flow
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


OF CITY FLOWERS; ON READING CERTAIN POEMS IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My city! How the younger poets mock
Last Line: My grief alone, thou knowest, will be real.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus
Subject(s): New York City; Praise; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


OF HER GLORIOUS MADNESS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city's mad: through her prodigious veins
Last Line: They ask to take the veil, and be a nun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


OF THREE MINDS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forest selva
Last Line: Bamboo bambu
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


OFF FIRE ISLAND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With snapping flag against the gray
Last Line: The flashing bluefish leaps -- for life!
Subject(s): Fire Island; New York City - Colonial Period; Sea; Ocean


OH LUCKY ME, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Chinese food was delicious?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


OLD LOVE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What keeps you going?
Last Line: Fame! I just had to wait for someone to take me up the side of the mountain
Subject(s): Love; New York City


OLD SAWS AND SEE-SAWS, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From eighth street up, from eighth street down
Last Line: A see-saw rhyme and a see-saw town.
Subject(s): Eighth Street, New York City; New York City - Streets


OLD ST. PAUL'S, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Park row and broadway-rush and din
Last Line: Who gathered them here 'neath the churchyard wall?
Subject(s): St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City)


OLD TRAILS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met him, as one meets a ghost or two
Last Line: I wish the bells in boris would be quiet.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle
Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love.
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


OMNI-ALBERT MURRAY, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: (three four) the ancestors are humming: write a poem, girl
Subject(s): African Americans; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ('duke'); New York City; Negroes; American Blacks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


OMNI-ALBERT MURRAY, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: (three four) the ancestors are humming: write a poem, girl
Last Line: Omni-albert murray omni omni albert murray
Subject(s): African Americans; Ellington, Edward Kennedy ("duke"); New York City


ON 52ND STREET, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down sat bud, raised his hands
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night Clubs; Jazz; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON A FORGOTTEN BY-WAY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shabby street-cars jingling go
Last Line: To their sweet manes this light rhyme.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; New York City - 19th Century; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ON A MANHATTAN ROOF, by ANNETTE WILCOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've been on a sea voyage
Last Line: Of car and voice and feet.
Subject(s): Cities; Life; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON A SUBWAY EXPRESS, by CHESTER FIRKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I who have lost the stars, the sod
Last Line: Is this wild ride -- with god.
Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON BROADWAY, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About me young careless feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


ON BROADWAY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great jewels glitter like a wizard's rain
Last Line: Without salute the vessel of the lord.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


ON CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK, by HELEN HAY WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I, whose totem was a tree
Last Line: "calm and sweet abide with you."
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; New York City - Streets


ON GRACE CHURCH CORNER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the stone-flowered, lozenged steeple
Last Line: A white dream cleaves the sky!
Subject(s): Bells; Broadway, New York City; Churches; Streets; Travel; Cathedrals; Avenues; Journeys; Trips


ON NEW YEAR'S EVE WE THROW THE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The power of the great
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ON SATURDAY, IT IS 14TH STREET FOR SHOPPING. CLOTHES AT A, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Your daughter on an uptown street
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ON SICK LEAVE, 1916, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He limped beneath the arch, across the square
Last Line: That smell which only is where war has been.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City; World War I; First World War


ON THE BRITISH BLOCKADE, AND EXPECTED ATTACK ON NEW YORK - 1814, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old neversink, with bonnet blue
Last Line: And cockburn miss a handsome plunder.
Subject(s): Naval Blockades; Navy - United States; New York City - War Of 1812; War Of 1812; American Navy


ON THE CITY ENCROACHMENTS ON THE RIVER HUDSON, 1800, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where hudson, once, in all his pride
Last Line: And time restore him all you take.
Subject(s): Hudson River; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON THE DEMOLITION OF FORT GEORGE, 1790, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As giants once, in hopes to rise
Last Line: And plant her seat of commerce here.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON THE HARLEM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hand that ruled the helm was yours
Last Line: And gunwale-deep in goldenrod.
Subject(s): Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City - Dutch Period


ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember the cleared streets, the strange suspense
Last Line: They came, and they are gone, and unreturning.
Subject(s): Animals; Firefighters; Horses; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ON THE PLAZA, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One august day I sat beside
Last Line: A personality was there!
Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues


ON THE PROSPECT OF RETURNING TO NEW YORK, AFTER THE WAR, IN 1815, by JOSIAH SHIPPEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For thee, new york, my much-loved home I sigh
Last Line: There let me live, o heaven, there let me die
Subject(s): Home; New York City - 19th Century


ON THE STUMP, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit amongst these people %commoners of which I am one
Last Line: We know each other %to seek the high ground
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


ONE BLACK BOY ON A CLASS TRIP, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Excitedly: hey, look at that %ninety year man!
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ONE CHINESE APPLE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Take small crimson bites
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


ORIGINALLY CALLED 7/20/96, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Days without sentiment %as the occasion for a poem
Last Line: As the gas pump dings, dings, dings
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Emotions; Grief; Memory; New York City; Poetry And Poets


ORPHANS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my father died, leaving me
Last Line: We thrive on luck, she said, %there is no father's love in that
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


OTHER ISLAND, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, listen, for a moment! Listen
Last Line: And I, bare and barely stirring, %in this new york city taxi heading west
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


OTTO, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name is otto the german %though I hated my landsmen
Last Line: Rap the cane on the floor %-bullshit, my black utterance
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


OUR COLONEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep loving, well knowing
Last Line: "but always said, ""come, boys!"
Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


OUT OF BOUNDS IN KANSAS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These days I live in a treehouse
Last Line: From our high perch, had not the ocean %beckoned to him-as it does me-to come home
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PACIFIC AVENUE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chinese voices fly up from the street
Last Line: Even the vegetables take on new forms
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PAN IN WALL STREET, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just where the treasury's marble front
Last Line: The quarter sounded from the steeple.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City


PANA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in jail, brother. Jail, brother
Last Line: You know why, bro, porque %ese tipo es mi pana
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PARIS DAY, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've had it here craving for new york city every day
Last Line: Let's go back immediately!
Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); New York City; Writing & Writers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


PARTY TRAIN, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bring joy and friendliness to the new york subway system
Last Line: The party train might finally stop for him
Subject(s): Happiness; Music And Musicians; New York City; Parties


PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pennsylvania station in new york
Last Line: To glorify the earth - and you - and me
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads


PERSONAL POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime
Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes & Dislikes; New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


PERSONAL POEM, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now when I walk around at lunchtime
Last Line: Back to work happy at the thought possibly so
Subject(s): Baraka, Amiri (leroi Jones); Likes And Dislikes; New York City; Poetry And Poets


PETER MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the lumberyard %the leather drivin' wheels
Last Line: An' walked to decide me fate %goin' west an' gone for good
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where nowadays the battery lies
Last Line: To breakfast at his bouwery.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - Dutch Period; Patriotism; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672); United States - Dutch Settlements


PHILODENDRON PLANTS. MONK'S FOOD AND, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Moved along canal street fascinates me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PICNIC: CENTRAL PARK, by KAY ANN MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the april sky kites glitter
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Picnics


PIROPOS DE LA CHINITA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mamita linda
Last Line: Corazon de melon
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PLEASANT AVENUE, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is in manhattan / as only those who live there know
Last Line: I have nothing to fear
Subject(s): New York City; Italian Americans; Neighbors


PLEASE DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE SORRY. DON'T BOTHER. THAT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Door, leaving your shadow standing on the wall
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM, by WALTER MALONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here stands the little antiquated house
Last Line: And israfel sings poe's supreme renown.
Subject(s): Fordham, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POEM, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Mark's place caught at night in hot summer
Subject(s): St. Mark's Place, New York City; Self; Solitude


POEM FOR AN INDIAN SCHOLAR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A friend sent me a book of asian love poems
Last Line: And write poems %I wonder is it that easy
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


POEM FOR NEW YORK, by PAUL LARAQUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The central heating's birds sing in the pipes
Last Line: But the snows of capital are not eternal %and only the struggle of the damned henceforth counts
Subject(s): New York City


POEM: 2, by KEITH ALTHAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Distance dwarfs mementos
Last Line: The sound of typewriter keys %finding their first words
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


POLITICAL, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm pushed, I'm being pushed, pushed
Last Line: And I made a citizen's arrest
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY: GAINE'S LIFE, CITY OF NEW YORK, 1783, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the senate of york
Last Line: Your humble petitioner -- honest -- hugh gaine.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Gaine, Hugh (1726-1807); Municipal Government; New York City; Newspapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journalism; Journalists


POLLY & THE NUDE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: A copy of a courbet %just shows to go ya
Last Line: A secret is a secret %yep! Ain't life grand!
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


POLLY CORTELYOU, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pretty polly cortelyou, / mistress of the ...'
Last Line: Woo the farmer lasses!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers


POPULAR, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Limbo %limping in circles
Last Line: Man carousel, turning like the %old man carousel
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea
Last Line: That is what it seems to be.
Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty


POSSESSION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When soft I lay in the mossy bed
Last Line: "we all belong to the sweet, green woods!"
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Love; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods


POST IMPRESSIONS: 8, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sitting in mcsorley's. Outside it was new
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


POST IMPRESSIONS: 8, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was sitting in mcsorley's. Outside it was new
Last Line: Outside.(it was new york and beautifully,snowing
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): New York City


PRACTITIONER, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was my grandfather who fed me
Last Line: My grandmother soothed me, but it was %my grandfather who kept me alive
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PRAYER, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Padre nuesto
Last Line: The inner light eternal- %ly dimmed like %a wasted bulb %in the spirit's %socket %ah men
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PROJECTION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day when the savoy
Last Line: Wonderful!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Divine, Father (george Baker, 1877-1965); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks


PSYCHOMACHIA, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old woman, you took so long in dying
Last Line: To meet on that unlabeled plain: I %to cradle you, you to teach me pain
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PURPLE POEM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shades of lilac and lavender
Last Line: By the light of the full moon
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


PUSH-CART, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you haven't the push-cart mind
Last Line: To be buried in.
Subject(s): New York City; Peddlers & Peddling; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


QUALITY HILL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quality hill! It looked down on the town
Last Line: The motley and medley of quality hill.
Subject(s): New York City; Wealth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Riches; Fortunes


QUEENS CEMETERY, SETTING SUN, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Airport bus from jfk
Subject(s): Cemeteries; New York City; Graveyards; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


RAINY SUNDAY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft, grey garment of the rushing rain
Last Line: The mother throned serene amid the rest.
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Rain; Streets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Avenues


RAMBOUT VAN DAM; THE FLYING DUTCHMAN OF THE TAPPAN ZEE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On tappan zee a shroud of gray
Last Line: A sound -- and naught beside.
Variant Title(s): Rambout Van Dam
Subject(s): Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Tappan Zee, Hudson River


READING OF THIS POEM, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is evident from the very first words that the subject of the poem
Last Line: If you are bright, lively, and gay, why not say yes to me
Subject(s): Homosexuality; New York City; Poetry And Poets


READY FOR THE CANNERY, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm tired of phrases chock full of praise
Subject(s): New York City; City & Town Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


RECTUM LIPS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It isn't my fault %I'm fat and pasty
Last Line: I just like to watch
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


RECUERDOS DE LA CHINITA EN GUATEMALA, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The call of chinita
Last Line: Give away my chinese fan
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


REFERENCES TO YOUR HOME AS A GHETTO. ANCIENT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Tenements. Sociological labels. A chinese %wonderland
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


REMEMBER WARING! (THE CITY AGAINST TAMMANY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the bugle-blow
Last Line: Remember waring.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Tammany Hall, New York City


REMEMBERING THE SIGNS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father took me to coney island
Last Line: Getting to see it all as it was then
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Memory


RETURN TO NEW YORK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far and free o'er the lifting sea, the lapsing wastes and
Last Line: Love that sings, on the sea-wind's wings runs on to greet thee his very own.
Subject(s): Homecoming; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


REVOLUTIONARY, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It %is %no %myth
Last Line: Love %knows %no %compromise
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk
Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance
Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter


RIDING THE SUBWAY IS AN ADVENTURE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Pennies in the first pocket have disappeared, %she knows that she is home
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


RIVERSIDE, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the slopes whose wooded spaces hide
Last Line: Shines like a limpid jewel in the night.
Subject(s): Riverside Drive, New York City


ROCKEFELLER THE CENTER, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roland is dead and the ivory broken
Subject(s): Rockefeller Center, New York City


ROMAIOS, by WILLAM GAY BALLANTINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas in the crowded avenue; o'erhead
Last Line: To shine resplendent in thy future's crown!
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Greek Language; New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ROMANCE, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore
Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . .
Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


RONDEAU A LA NEW YORK, by ROBERT GRANT (1852-1940)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pot of gold! O mistress fair
Last Line: A pot of gold.
Subject(s): Love; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ROSES IN THE SUBWAY, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wan-cheeked girl with faded eyes
Last Line: My mother ... Stooping down.
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


RUSSIAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She scraped the church floor
Last Line: She polished fourteen carat chalices
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain
Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.'
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants


SA GOW, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my father's village in china
Last Line: Posing for a proud portrait %in my father's village in china
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SAD SONG ABOUT GREENWICH VILLAGE, by FRANCES PARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She lives in a garret
Last Line: And even if she's dead %there's nobody to know
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City


SAILOR SUIT, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She tells him how when she is hurt
Last Line: He tells her she can throw away %her sailor suit forever
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 1. MONTE DE LAS PIEDRAS ROSAS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a pinon tree outside
Last Line: The whole tree shuddered %and, a breath later, it is bare
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 2. LOS ALAMOS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why the name? Not a poplar in sight
Last Line: They do not wave as we drive by
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 3. PROMESAS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To el santuario de chimayo
Last Line: The light outside is blinding
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road
Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 5. RETURN TO THE CITY OF HOLY FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Signs back to santa fe are incongruous
Last Line: Tucked resolutely beneath his arm- %defying windmills, imperialism, death. Away!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SARAH MCSORLEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I outlived all of you %though no good to me
Last Line: I hear these ghosts moanin' %still waitin' for us to talk
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


SAXON HARVEST HEALTH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to the plow that furrowed
Last Line: The blessing of sheaves of grain.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers


SCENES GATHERED FROM A CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds clearing away
Last Line: My dull mind is suddenly opened
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SCHMITTY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this old bar %I've come for years %to watch for love
Last Line: To watch for love %believe me, %it's not here
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


SCUM O' THE EARTH', by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the gate of the west I stand
Last Line: In the wealth of the richest bloods of earth.
Subject(s): Freedom; New York City; Patriotism; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SEA-GULLS OF MANHATTAN, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children of the elemental mother
Last Line: While the river flows to meet the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; New York City; Seagulls; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SEVEN SANDWICHMEN ON BROADWAY, by JEFFERSON BUTLER FLETCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shuffling and shambling, woebegone, they pass
Last Line: Of fear, of hate,—of the thrice false weights of gold!
Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City


SHADOW BOX WITH CITY FOR MICHAEL, by MARIS BRASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the city in this fleeting hushed fog-
Last Line: We remain - two figures locked inside %a shadow box this city undreamed abandoned
Subject(s): New York City


SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE; CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this free pantheon of the air and sun
Last Line: The reverence of what he was shall call it down
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Central Park, New York City; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Statues


SHE IS MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED, by WILLIAM B. GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the old concert hall on the bowery
Last Line: No -- he asked for god's mercy and said:
Subject(s): New York City; Pity; Prostitution; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SHOPPING, by NICOLETTE NICOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the bargain section of the banana republic on fifth
Last Line: While I try on his beret. 'I live on 85th,' he says, 'wanna stop %by?'
Subject(s): Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); New York City; Shopping


SHORT ODE TO MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground,
Subject(s): Morningside Heights, New York City; City & Town Life


SILENCE OF THUMBS, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whoever heard %of a shithouse door %with mullioned windows
Last Line: Disappear, and (thumbs %being what they are) %this will all begin again
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


SIR HENRY CLINTON'S INVITATION TO THE REFUGEES, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, gentlemen tories, firm, loyal, and true
Last Line: Who are born to be hang'd, will never be shot.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Clinton, Sir Henry (1738-1795); New York City; Refugees; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SIRO DELMONICO, by SAMUEL WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: He lieth low whose constant art
Last Line: Than siro's memorable feasts.
Alternate Author Name(s): W., S. G.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Feasts; New York City - 19th Century


SITTING ACROSS FROM ME ON THE BUS A CHINESE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With the stage sometimes shifting to the %subway
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 1. BEGINNING, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love, here we stand at the beginning
Last Line: To find a unique point
Subject(s): New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 2. GLOVES, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's barely the middle of january
Last Line: In silent darkness, into the gray, wet snow
Subject(s): New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 3. AUGUST NIGHT, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A quarter after midnight, and the light
Last Line: At the glory of these nights and days
Subject(s): New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 4. BEDTIME, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turning out the light, I take
Last Line: I fret even as I weep with wonder
Subject(s): New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 5. BOOKSHELVES, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the industrial fringe of park slope
Last Line: Has marveled at it all more than ourselves
Subject(s): New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 6. CONFIRMATION, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How is that an old devotion calls
Last Line: Finding it, lifts with a different hand?
Subject(s): New York City


SIXTY-FIFTH STREET POEMS; 7. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by BRUCE BAWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a june morning, and we'd met
Last Line: Of bodies in midair: the garden %of earthly delights
Subject(s): New York City


SKETCHES, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In new york, bus drivers are the only happy men
Last Line: That reads drink blotto!
Subject(s): Cruelty; New York City; Violence; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river
Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City


SLEEK FOR THE LONG FLIGHT, by JAMES HARMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain in quick eight notes
Last Line: Different, you said, %and almost good
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; New York City; Rain


SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have imagined all this
Last Line: When my father and mother made love above rothko %who lay in the day thinking roses, roses, roses
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970)


SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves
Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico.
Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods


SMILEY, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm old with ten teeth %arthritis grips me %my memory's shiteshot
Last Line: I wonder if he knows %how great this joint is
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


SNOW, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow comes down on new york city
Last Line: You will later eat before it is cooked.
Subject(s): New York City; Snow; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 1. IDEAL DISORDERS, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miles of rows of orange trash cans
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 2. A NEW WORLD, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Torn maps, pages in spume
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF REALITY AT CONEY ISLAND: 4. THE TOWER, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tower of men
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


SONG FOR A VENISON DINNER AT MR. BUNYAN'S, by JOSEPH STANSBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends, push 'round the bottle, and let us be drinking
Last Line: Has strengthened the hands of these upstart pretenders.
Subject(s): Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Friendship; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONG TO THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, by PRICE DAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Goggle-eyed, %the centuries con
Last Line: The excellence %of fragile things
Subject(s): Empire State Building, New York City


SONG-FLOWER AND POPPY: 1. IN NEW YORK, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He plays the deuce with my writing time
Last Line: Nothing is good for long.
Subject(s): New York City; Transience; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Impermanence


SONGS OF NEW YORK: A CITY SUNSET, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cross the roof-tops of the town
Last Line: Of gladness sped upon its way.
Subject(s): Evening; New York City; Sunset; Twilight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: BROADWAY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here surge the ceaseless caravans
Last Line: I wonder who would care?
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: DOWNTOWN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun has gone, and from the ferryboat
Last Line: And breathe a little prayer for them, and sigh.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: FIFTH AVENUE AT NIGHT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's
Last Line: Tread of far feet.
Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Night; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues


SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEW BUILDINGS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The turrets leap higher and higher
Last Line: The woodpeckers of the town.
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEXT DOOR, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw the tapers burn
Last Line: And my neighbor grieves -- alone, alone!
Subject(s): Death; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE LIGHTS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten thousand jewels flash out
Last Line: Till the stars have faded away.
Subject(s): Light; New York City; Tears; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE PARKS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are green islands in the city sea
Last Line: There are green islands in the city sea.
Subject(s): New York City; Parks; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: THE VOICES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the voice of the city
Last Line: Forever blue is the sky!
Subject(s): New York City; Voices; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: TO A HURDY-GURDY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to you, brave hurdy-gurdy
Last Line: With but half as brave a heart!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONGS OF NEW YORK: TRAFFIC, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hoof-beats thundering on the paves
Last Line: If only in my dream!)
Subject(s): New York City; Traffic; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNET IN PRAISE OF TACT, by WILLIAM MCFEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Earth hath not anything to show more fair,' said wordsworth
Last Line: The trolley cars upon the jersey shore.
Subject(s): Loitering; New York City; Police; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM, by HELENE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are disdainful and magnificent
Last Line: You are too splendid for this city street.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Americans; Harlem (new York City); United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America


SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 1. NEW YORK AT SUNRISE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When with her clouds the early dawn illumes
Last Line: I see my city with an enlightened eye.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 2. A POLITICAL 'BOSS', by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has he no country? Is he of alien breed?
Last Line: I felt the burning garments of thy shame.
Subject(s): New York City; Politics & Government; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 3, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shame on thee, o manhattan, whom I love!
Last Line: I felt the burning garments of thy shame.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 4. THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This day into the fields my steps are led
Last Line: But to plunge in the fountain of its living blood.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: NEW YORK, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her mouth is carmine and her cheeks too red
Last Line: Faith that endures and loyalty that stays!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SOUTH BRONX, by ROBERT RONNOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: While I'm reading a poem about it on the previous page
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City


SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 3, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were all insane,the eternal
Last Line: Or molested, the list %goes on
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


SPANISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your language outlives your world power
Last Line: I'm gonna fight for you, I love you, spanish, %I'm your humble son
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SPECULATIVE REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if the citizens of new york will ever get sufficiently wroth
Last Line: To remember that tammany cooks spoil the broth
Subject(s): New York City


SPRING, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In central park the lovers sit
Last Line: To lose your battle in the end?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Love


SPRING COMES TO MURRAY HILL, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit in an office at 244 madison avenue
Last Line: Instead of being confined on madison avenue I could soar in a jiffy to second or third
Subject(s): Madison Avenue, New York; Murray Hill, New York; New York City; Spring


SPRING IN THE BRONX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring is sprung
Last Line: Duh little wind in on duh boid
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Spring


SPRING IN THE SUBWAY, by ELSA GILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In these dim corridors of shattering sound
Last Line: Of cotton buttercups upon her hat.
Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SPRING IN TOWN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The country ever has a lagging spring
Last Line: And your loud wheels unheeded rattle by.
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Spring


SPRING NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The park is filled with night and fog
Last Line: Why am I crying after love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City; Spring; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SPRING STREET BAR, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And last night a man came in
Last Line: When there had been a sky, to write about the sky
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; New York City; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


ST. PAUL'S AND WOOLWORTH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on the pavement
Last Line: Saint frank in the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Woolworth, Frank W. (1852-1919)


STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled
Last Line: And stars behold our bones again.
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


STATEN ISLAND FERRY: BACK, by MARIELLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the thing I had not dreamed
Last Line: Who only dreamed to have the sea.
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


STILL LIFE: CONEY ISLAND & COUNTRY GYM, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The guys who wrestled
Last Line: Through the sand, love %I can feel it shaking
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Fights; Wrestling And Wrestlers


STILLS, by VICKI GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is always half-turned away
Last Line: Disciplined as a camera, %knows each bone
Subject(s): New York City; Photography And Photographers


STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight
Last Line: He had been shaped like a drunken pyramid, irregularly triangular. %I liked him
Subject(s): New York City; Stones


STORM ON FIFTH AVENUE, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sallow waiter brings me six huge oysters
Last Line: O babylon! O carthage! O new york!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


STORM SIGNALS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloud-wreath, mist-sheath
Last Line: The foam is bound to fly!
Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Sea; Storms; Ocean


STORY, by SUSAN MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a bar I go to when I'm in chicago
Last Line: Whoever you are, this poem is for you
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Chicago; Cities; New York City


STREET OF NAMED HOUSES, by ROBERT DAVID COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sun, %you smile at the granite of milton
Last Line: Singing on a wall, come to dance. Soon, soon, %my love
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City)


SUBWAY GRAFFITI: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S IMPRESSIONS, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day-glo signs of survival
Last Line: Parngs of hair, toenail, %spirit and song
Subject(s): Anthropology; Cities; New York City; Subways; Travel


SUBWAY TRACK-WALKERS, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are ye hopeless who go with dull faces
Last Line: That I may ride to my true love to-day?
Subject(s): Commuters; New York City; Railroads; Steel; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains


SUCCESS STORIES, by RICHARD COLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm still addicted to the 'new york times'
Last Line: Rambling down into the earth again, toward %manhattan, wealth, and our steady jobs
Subject(s): Advertising; New York City; Success


SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness
Last Line: This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Riverside Drive, New York City; Summer


SUMMER NIGHT-BROADWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night is the city's disease
Last Line: Looking for children to sing to.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Cities; Injustice; Urban Life


SUMMER NIGHTS WE SPENT ON THE COOL STOOPS. WE WORE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Between two chairs and it turned into a bazaar of %miscellaneous goodies
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SUMMER: WEST SIDE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When on the coral-red steps of old brownstones
Last Line: By one more night’s deposit of vigil
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


SUMMER: WEST SIDE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When on the coral-red steps of old brownstones
Last Line: Seem slightly darkened %by one more night's deposit of vigil
Subject(s): New York City


SUNRISE, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The sunrise of new york
Last Line: As though recently rescued from a shipwreck of blood
Subject(s): Homeless; New York City - Streets; Poverty


SURREALISTS ON EAST HOUSTON, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A brick wall is painted in layers of piss and smells
Last Line: And wears a pin in the form of a palette %the surrealists dream of red sneakers
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


SWEET DISTURBANCE OF THE PEACE, by STACEY FRUITS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like it best when love forgets itself, when love is loud
Last Line: Window box and watch me bloom inside the dead of winter
Subject(s): Cities; Harlem (new York City); Noises; Poetry And Poets


TAIWAN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The place where
Last Line: Became sun and %everything came true
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


TALKING BLUES, by CALVIN FORBES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Raccoon you better be cool
Subject(s): Raccoons; Harlem (new York City)


TAMMANY HALL, 1819, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a barrel of porter at tammany hall
Last Line: Is that barrel of porter at tammany hall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Tammany Hall, New York City


THANKSGIVING, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day
Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THAT DEAR CONEY, by CHESTER FIRKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A city walled against the golden day
Last Line: "for here the ways of light and laughter lie."
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City


THAT STIFF FIGURE THERE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the tears they come
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THAT ZEN TIME IN THE SNOW, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Everything is pleasant
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack
Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow.
Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean


THE 'GOED VROW' AND THE DUTCH PILGRIM FATHERS, MAY 4, 1626, by EDWARD HOPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old dutch pilgrims were a solid race
Last Line: For those strong words that bind our states together!
Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; United States - Dutch Settlements


THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring has grown to summer
Last Line: They've left behind in town.
Subject(s): Home; New York City - 19th Century


THE ANGEL OF THE CORNICE, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Listen to me, ye creeping ants of men
Last Line: Ye, too, shall learn the love that is remorse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Angels; Heroism; New York City - Buildings; Heroes; Heroines


THE AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE NEW WORLD, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek
Subject(s): New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE BALL, 1789, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The town is at the ball to-night
Last Line: And they ran away together.
Subject(s): Balls; Conventions; New York City; Assemblies; Meetings; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE BALLAD OF CHRISTOPHER STREET, by FLOYD DELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it still there, I wonder, down in christopher street
Last Line: Eleven christopher street.
Subject(s): Change; Christopher Street, New York City; Greenwich Village, New York City; Time; Youth


THE BALLAD OF JOHN PAUL JONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath masted the flag of the crimson bars
Last Line: By the sweep of the moonlit steel!
Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); New York City - Revolutionary Period; British Empire; England - Empire


THE BALLOON, 1819, by MOSES Y. SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Huzza! Huzza! Clear, clear the way!
Last Line: "the balloon—don't ascend to-day!"
Subject(s): Balloons; Bowery, New York City; Friendship


THE BLOCK-HOUSE IN THE PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The north wind storms my rugged front
Last Line: May all their wars be such as these!
Subject(s): Dreams; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Nightmares


THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land
Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies!
Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes
Last Line: Gatherest --
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE BUNTLING BALL, 1884, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O proud new york, that wast new amsterdam
Last Line: When compared with central park.
Subject(s): Balls; Central Park, New York City


THE BURIAL OF GRANT; NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1885, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye living soldiers of the mighty war
Last Line: And made it free and great.
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); New York City - 19th Century


THE CHARNEL GROUND, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Http://media.Sas.Upenn.Edu/pennsound/authors/ginsberg/chicago-1959/ginsberg-allen_01_howl_big-table-
Subject(s): Aging; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CHILDREN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the spring on the pavements of the city
Last Line: With the receding day.
Subject(s): Children; New York City; Childhood; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CITY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, dear is the song of the pine
Last Line: For the ships of all the earth!
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians


THE CITY, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the shining water, serene she sits in state
Last Line: As far across the bay's clear stretch is borne her silver chime.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CITY, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not mine with infancy's film'd eyes
Last Line: Thy singer here reborn.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CITY (1925), by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under this luxemburg of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): New York City; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CITY, 1850, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the city, and the city's smoke
Last Line: Good-bye! I'm going by the evening train!
Subject(s): Farewell; New York City - 19th Century; Streets; Parting; Avenues


THE CLOCK IN THE AIR, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on manhattan's tallest tower
Last Line: Teaching the toilers how to dream.
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers


THE COLUMBUS PARADE, 1893, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Huge warships of all nations side by side
Last Line: The fragile oak of christopher's caravel.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; New York City - 19th Century; Parades; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


THE COMPLAINT OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by JACOB STEENDAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm a grandchild of the gods
Last Line: So that prussia she'll disdain.
Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE CONGRATULATION, by JONATHAN ODELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joy to great congress, joy an hundred fold
Last Line: Saint denis and saint tammany, go rot.
Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Clergy; Estaing, Jean Baptiste De (1729-1794); New York City - Revolutionary Period; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon was up and I was young
Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away.
Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime


THE CROTON ODE, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gushing from this living fountain
Last Line: Like the gathered waters here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): Croton Aqueduct, New York; New York City - 19th Century


THE CURB-BROKERS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, ye frenzied creatures, antic, mask-like figures
Last Line: And did ye ever walk among the rustling rows of corn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Brokers; Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE DEVIL'S STEPPING-STONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky of gold, a sea of blue
Last Line: Long island keeps the devil.
Subject(s): Devil; Legends; Long Island (n.y.); New York City; Sailing & Sailors; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Seamen; Sails


THE DOG-STAR RAGES, 1850, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unseal the city fountains
Last Line: Long live the valiant mayor!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): Battery Park, New York; New York City - 19th Century


THE DROWNED MAN: DEATH BETWEEN TWO RIVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone moves through the jungle
Last Line: Someone is born with the bright face of your brother
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When christmas-eve is ended
Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People


THE DYCKMAN HOUSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plain as the brass of an old sword-hilt
Last Line: "shall look the world in the face again."
Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Belief; Creed; Liberty


THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE MARKET, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The riveted rafters drip the rain and the twilight pave
Last Line: Mother, that your strange heart might know you are the fount of a future race!
Subject(s): New York City - Markets; Poverty


THE EMPIRE CITY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Huge steel-ribbed monsters rise into the air
Last Line: Her dreams in iron and her thoughts of stone.
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers


THE EMPIRE STATE, by LUCY BURGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They tell me of lands that are fairer than
Last Line: And free men are tilling thy soil.
Subject(s): New York City; North, The; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; IN ABSENCE, BY ONE WHO RETURNS NO MORE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou there, between thy rivers
Last Line: Loosed, my soul shall wing to thee!
Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


THE FACTORIES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have shut my little sister in from life and light
Last Line: God of life! Creator! It was I! It was I!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Child Labor; Labor & Laborers; New York City; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE FASHIONS, 1806, by LEWIS BEACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lad came down from our town
Last Line: And turn'd them out of door, sir.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fashion; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade
Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more!
Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny


THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: We think we'll stay another year.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Family Life; City Snd Town Life; Wity And Humor; Apartments; Central Park, New York City; Relatives


THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't get any too much light
Last Line: We think we'll stay another year.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City


THE FLEET, by CHESTER FIRKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gaunt rocks of death that darkly lay
Last Line: Went forth for peace, or war.
Subject(s): Battleships; Heroism; New York City; War; Heroes; Heroines; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE GATEWAY, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What rome in sheer abandonment of pride
Last Line: Glad millions press to life's exultant noon!
Subject(s): Commuters; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE GREEK QUARTER, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cryptic letters of the golden tongue
Last Line: The blue Ægean sparkling in the day.
Subject(s): Coffee Houses; Greek Language; Immigrants; New York City; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE HALL OF FAME, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A noble fane of marble wall and moonlit ...
Last Line: Entered new names on the roll of fame.
Subject(s): Death; Fame; Halloween; Harlem River, New York; New York City; Dead, The; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE HARLEM DANCER, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes
Last Line: I knew her self was not in that strange place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Harlem (new York City)


THE HOUSE OF BLAZES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where spuyten duyvil's waves environ
Last Line: "and right forninst the spittin' divil!'"
Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Home; Legends; New York City - Colonial Period


THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men
Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE KNICKERBOCKER'S ADDRESS TO THE STUYVESANT PEAR TREE, 1647-1857, by HENRY WEBB DUNSHEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fam'd relic of the ancient time, as on thy form I / gaze
Last Line: Till light no more shall bless the land where liberty was born.
Subject(s): Government; Memory; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672)


THE LAKE IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It should have a woman's name
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Lakes; Pools; Ponds


THE LAST BOHEMIANS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We meet in a cheap diner and I think, god
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Bohemians; Old Age


THE LAST OF THE NEW YEAR'S CALLERS, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The door is shut-I think the fine old face
Last Line: In front of the old-time door that's shut.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE LEGEND OF THE BRONX, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With sword and bible, brood and dame
Last Line: "come to our valley of homes!"
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace; Summer


THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lightning spun your garment for the night
Last Line: A fire that neither wind nor rain can dim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows
Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE LORCA VARIATIONS (32) 'FIRST NEW YORK POEM', by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Science & the paradise of labor give hope to those who live
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE LORD OF THE DUNDERBERG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goblin and kobold and elf and gnome
Last Line: Strike flag to the lord of the dunderberg!
Subject(s): Fantasy; Gnomes; New York City - Dutch Period; Ships & Shipping


THE MAIN DRAG, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm mightily fond of manhattan
Last Line: Girls!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT, 1861, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here they come!-'tis the twelfth, you know
Last Line: The lilies and palms of god.
Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; Soldiers; War


THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O million-singing comes the may
Last Line: Had given birth to man!
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer


THE MENU, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I beg you come tonight and dine
Last Line: Excepting alfred tennyson.
Variant Title(s): Maecenas Bids His Friend To Dine;another Invitation
Subject(s): Food & Eating; New York City; Parties; Smoking; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


THE MORAINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look down, love, from the bridge's height
Last Line: To share with others while we may.
Subject(s): Home; New York City - Buildings


THE MYSTIFIED QUAKER IN NEW YORK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Respected wife: by these few lines my whereabouts thee'll learn
Last Line: So I left them in disgust: plain-spoken men like me / with such perverters of our tongue can have no
Subject(s): "friends, Religious Society Of;new York City;speech;" "quakers;manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;oratory;orators;


THE NEW YORK CLUBWOMAN MEDITATES ON HAMLET, by OLIVE TAIT SUTHERLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: To be on time, or not to be; that is the question
Last Line: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Subject(s): City Traffic; Clubs (associations); Lateness; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE OLD 'CONSTITUTION', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the wind that greets the sun
Last Line: A hundred years ago.
Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Sailing & Sailors; Liberty; Seamen; Sails


THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN; A BROADWAY LYRIC, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits by the side of a turbulent stream
Last Line: And the gates of a heavenly city.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poverty; Rivers; Women


THE OLD BREVOORT FARM, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A snug little farm was the old brevoort
Last Line: Eleventh street's not opened through, to this day!
Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE OLD LYCEUM; FOURTH AVENUE AND 23RD STREET, by A. E. LANCASTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The end has come. Dare we, who face you thus
Last Line: Because the new springs from the old lyceum!
Subject(s): New York City - Theaters


THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a
Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!"
Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE PINES, SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET; CENTRAL PARK, LOOKING SOUTHWARD, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though winds are bleak this greening tells of may
Last Line: And ceaseless flows this restless human tide.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter


THE PIRATE'S SPUKE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave the dull present, to seek awhile
Last Line: And the force of an iron will.
Subject(s): Devil; New York City - Dutch Period; Pirates; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Piracy; Buccaneers


THE PITY OF THE PARK FOUNTAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a summery day in the last of may
Last Line: And the fountain will play on!
Subject(s): Fountains; New York City - 19th Century


THE PRINCE'S BALL, 1860, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, haven't you heard how an english prince, prince, prince
Last Line: Of the splendour and fame of the prince's ball!
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; New York City - 19th Century; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Quakers


THE PRISON SHIPS, 1776, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: O martyrdom of hope!-to lie
Last Line: Holds back to god,—earth's brightest answering star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Monuments; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Prison Ships; Ships & Shipping


THE RATTLE-WATCH OF NEW AMSTERDAM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark to the rattle's discordant swell!
Last Line: If our patrolmen were paid in coal!
Subject(s): New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Police; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime; Seamen; Sails


THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past the red box at vesey street
Last Line: Through the red box at vesey street.
Subject(s): Homeless; Kindness; New York City - Streets; Poverty


THE REGIMENT, 1909, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The traffic clears, and the crowd to the curb shifts to
Last Line: But still the red blood corpuscles shall vitalize the race.
Subject(s): Death; Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City; Soldiers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE RIVER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What may the gray gull know
Last Line: That glide on the sable stream.
Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Night; Rivers; Bedtime


THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 1. BROADWAY, 103RD TO 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lights foam and bubble down the gentle grade
Last Line: To pour in gathering torrent through the dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


THE RIVER OF LIGHT: 2. BELOW 96TH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The current quickens, and in golden flow
Last Line: It bursts in cataracts upon times square!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My way of life is a winding road
Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'"
Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs


THE SHADOWY CITY LOOMS; NEW YORK FROM THE NORTH RIVER, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In deepening shades the haunting vision swims
Last Line: Seems a lost star.
Subject(s): New York City; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK, by JAMES W. BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in front of casey's old brown wooden stoop
Last Line: On the sidewalks of new york.
Subject(s): History; New York City; Historians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE SIEUR DE ROCHEFONTAINE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Picardy, provence, touraine
Last Line: For the sieur de rochefontaine.
Subject(s): Bechet, Etienne Nicholas Marie (d. 1798); Death; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Rochefontaine, Sieur De; Rochefontaine, Stephen; Dead, The


THE SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river
Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City


THE SLEEPING, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have imagined all this
Last Line: Who lay in the dark thinking  roses, roses, roses
Subject(s): Cities; New York City; Rothko, Mark (1903-1970); Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE STAMP ACT IN NEW YORK, 1765, by GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night before the stamp-act
Last Line: The stamp act was repeal'd.
Subject(s): Freedom; New York City - Colonial Period; Stamp Act (1765); Liberty


THE STONE, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stone found me in bright sunlight
Last Line: I liked him
Subject(s): New York City; Stones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Granite; Rocks


THE STORM SHIP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sails are wove of the fogs that flee
Last Line: For the waves wax rich where the storm ship rides.
Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


THE STORMING OF STONY POINT [JULY 16, 1779], by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Highlands of hudson! Ye saw them pass
Last Line: "over the parapet, ""spear in hand!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle Of (1779); Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796)


THE STREETS, 1869, by WILLIAM OSBORN STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our city is born of the pure, blue sea
Last Line: In leaving our streets all hid in the dirt.
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Streets; Avenues


THE SWEEP'S CAROL, 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the streets of new york city
Last Line: Carol-o-a-y-e-o!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Singing & Singers


THE SWITCH YARD, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the glimmer of arc lights and spaces of shade
Last Line: Past the tall signal tower holding the void in survey.
Subject(s): New York City; Subways; Wheels; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE THANK-OFFERING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Overbeck, the forest preacher
Last Line: "loveth god, alone."
Subject(s): Churches; New York City - Colonial Period; Praise; Rain; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology


THE TOMB OF THE PATRIOTS, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Britain! We cite you to our bar, once more
Last Line: These, once so wretched near manhattan's shore.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Patriotism; Prison Ships; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE TOWERS OF MANHATTAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the middle arch of the bridge I stood
Last Line: For a crown for her head!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers


THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root
Last Line: I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE TRUE NEW YORKER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He wears the pride of mighty throngs
Last Line: Will crush them all at last.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER), by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the jersey city shed
Last Line: God bless the train that brought me here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Gratitude; Home; Love; New Jersey; New York City; Railroads; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such mourning as we
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


THE VILLAGE, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hate greenwich village like vachel lindsay said
Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


THE VOICE OF THE CITY, by J. L. SINCLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: So this is new york!
Last Line: When do we eat!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a hell of faces surge and whirl
Last Line: And, under all, the silence of the dead!
Subject(s): Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Greater than memory of achilles or ulysses
Last Line: The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, america.
Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period


THE WEST FORTIES: MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On this hotel, their rumpled royalties
Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE WHITE LIGHTS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in from delos came the gold
Last Line: That there was triumph in the air.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City


THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enormously it lifts
Last Line: Circles and flows the restless human tide.
Subject(s): New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York


THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear mother, / when the coach rolled off
Last Line: "please write, ""I know."
Subject(s): Marriage; New York City - 19th Century; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips


THERE ARE MORE CHINESE BUMS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: One of them looks like a poet
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THERE IS A GROUP OF CHINESE-AMERICAN MEN WHO THINK OF, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Calligraphy, consult the ching and go to sword flicks to %blow their minds
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY ARE SEEN IN DIFFERENT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Saw a man waiting for a bus %tonight. Womanless
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY DRESS ALIKE AND CUT THEIR BLACK HAIR INTO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Get a permanent. They speak chinese sprinkled %with many english words
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY MUST HAVE ME LEARN MY LESSONS OF VIOLENCE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: No more pepperoni in the toilet bowls
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THEY WANT ME TO SETTLE DOWN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Whispers that I haven't seen peking
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas
Last Line: She loves me, she loves me
Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life


THIS CHINESE WARRIOR, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And tells no one his name
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THIS WORLD IS A CONFUSION OF THREE WORLDS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark figures of politics hover in the air
Subject(s): China; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jewel-blue electric flowers
Last Line: But time goes out in grey.
Subject(s): New York City; Railroads; Streets; Subways; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Railways; Trains; Avenues


THREE PEASANT DAUGHTERS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: One wore glass bangles from canton
Last Line: One looked out over blue water %dreaming of falling stars
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


THREE POEMS FOR NEW YORK, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into oiur brick acropolis returns
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THUNDERSTORM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smiths of the heavens are mending the weather
Last Line: Proclaims to the world that the weather is mended.
Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Storms


TIMMY BOYLE, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me, timmy boyle! %up there with babe ruth
Last Line: I'm up there forever: %me, timmy boyle!
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


TO A NEW YORK SHOP-GIRL DRESSED FOR SUNDAY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I saw the shop-girl go
Last Line: Surely his angels lay their kiss.
Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO A POETICAL TRIO IN THE CITY OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bards of the island city! - where of old
Last Line: "ye shall be blessed with, and not ""damned to fame""!"
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Lawson, James (1799-1880); Leggett, William (1801-1839); New York City; Poetry & Poets; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO FIFTH AVENUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful, long, loved avenue!
Last Line: Where thy gaslights leave off or the starlights begin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Fifth Avenue, New York City; Light; Night; Bedtime


TO MYRTILLA OF NEW YORK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rockies, I own, are a beautiful sight
Last Line: There's nothing like you in the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


TO NEW YORK, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New york! I had first been confused by
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City


TO NEW YORK, AWAKENING, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O city of a thousand towers
Last Line: "man is as mighty as his noblest dream."
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO NEW YORK: 1, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New york! At first I was bewildered by your beauty
Last Line: And murky streams carry away hygenic loving %like rivers overflowing with the corpses of babies
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City


TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO NEW YORK: 2, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time for signs and reckoning, new york! Now is
Last Line: Listen to the distant beating of your nocturnal heart, %the tom-tom's rhythm and blood, tom-tom bloo
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City


TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TO NEW YORK: 3, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New york! I say new york, let black blood flow into your
Last Line: Created heaven and earth in six days, %and on the seventh slept a deep negro sleep
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); New York City


TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not who thou art, oh lovely one!
Last Line: My love shall hover round thee!
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Women


TO THE PATRONS OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1656, by EVERT NIEUWENHOF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still amstel's ancient burghers live
Last Line: But when their loss brings gain, doubly rejoice.
Subject(s): Engraving And Engravers; New York City - Dutch Period; Van Der Donck, Adrian (1620-1655); Yonkers, New York


TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war
Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History


TOGETHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Source                    
First Line: They lay together in the sun and waited for the end
Last Line: Peter, from delancey street, in new york town
Subject(s): New York City; Togetherness


TOM BROWN'S DAY IN GOTHAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you a story of thomas brown
Last Line: At the old park-gate, the regular shilling!
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TRANTER IN AMERICA, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Tranter, John (b. 1943); New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TRAVELING TO NEW YORK, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I turned my oral tradition into an endless scream
Last Line: Driven there by the lust of two, which is greater than any solitary form
Subject(s): Marriage; New York City


TREAD THE DARK: 40. SOUTH BRONX, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bronx, New York City


TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now a resident of paradise
Subject(s): New York City; Storms


TUBBY HOOK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mevrouw von weber was brisk though fat
Last Line: That super-cleanliness may go wrong!
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Witchcraft & Witches


TULIPS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In crayon gardens
Last Line: Lamp tulip tree %tulips in bloom
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


TURTLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orrick, poet-laureate of st. Louis
Last Line: Is it feet carry them?
Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Turtles; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tortoises


TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof
Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone
Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build!
Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT FRANK: 2. MANHATTAN, by MIRIAM GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A moment in a vast and empty square: a man under a slanting hat cross
Last Line: The scaffolding come down, ropes on the pulleys, loose ends, rise
Subject(s): New York City; Photography And Photographers


TWO RONDEAUX TO NEW YORK: 1. WINTER, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love new york in winter time
Last Line: I love new york!
Subject(s): New York City; Winter; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TWO RONDEAUX TO NEW YORK: 2. SUMMER, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: New york, I love you - dog-days, too
Last Line: New york, I love you!
Subject(s): New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: QUESTIONS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where in the crowds that blunder through the street
Last Line: Make even blind men serve her high desire?
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: TOWERS, by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Something there is in me exults in towers
Last Line: From pennons on the turrets of their time.
Subject(s): New York City; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


TWO WOMEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows lay along broadway
Last Line: By man is cursed alway!
Variant Title(s): Unseen Spirits;broadway
Subject(s): Adversity; Broadway, New York City; New York City - 19th Century


UNCLE SAM TO JOHN BULL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John bullikins, my jo, john
Last Line: John bullikins, my jo.
Subject(s): Friendship; New York City - Revolutionary Period


UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell
Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught!
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


UNION SQUARE, by WALTER MALONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watch the water lilies in this pond
Last Line: Homeless and friendless, here in union square.
Subject(s): Union Square, New York City


UNION SQUARE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the man I love who loves me not
Last Line: In the lights of union square.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Union Square, New York City


UPPER BROADWAY SUNDAY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is high noon over upper broadway
Last Line: Dionysos has swallowed apollo
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; City & Town Life


URBS CORONATA (SONG FOR THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O youngest of the giant brood
Last Line: And be the city's crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): City College Of New York; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


VARICK STREET, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night the factories
Last Line: Sell you, of course, my dear, and you'll sell me
Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


VARICK STREET, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At night the factories
Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City


VIET NAM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Viet nam %bomb
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


VILLANELLE (TO A LOVER OF MANHATTAN), by HENRY S. CHURCHILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O city of astounding towers
Last Line: Thy beauty changes with the hours.
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


VILLANELLE OF CITY AND COUNTRY, by ZOE AKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the arches of the leaves I lie
Last Line: But oh, the towers set in gotham's sky!
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Romance; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


VILLANELLE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The starshine on the arch is silver white
Last Line: The green-robed spring has come to town tonight.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


VISITING DAY AT SCHOOL, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother is sitting on a swing
Last Line: I want to go to her, claim her, %but there is no room for me, no room
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


WALKING ALONG THE BOWERY, CAN'T, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Of blind prostitutes in hong kong
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WALL HAIKU I, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: On june 15, 1904 the side-wheel steamer caught fire in the
Last Line: Wellington meets you know who %old news on the wall
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


WALL HAIKU II, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I flew the ocean %fame swollen like the cold sea
Last Line: Mystery in boyish games %never safe at home
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


WALL HAIKU III, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Barren gray old man %stars and stripes over cold rock %shadow of machine
Last Line: Hatching for the public good %thinking in a cave
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


WALL HAIKU IV, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life is ravenous %beef an' spuds, cheese an' onions
Last Line: Sunlit love flirts in the eye %george dove to his death
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


WALL STREET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strait river, with its hoarse and feverous flood
Last Line: Christ above mammon, love before the world.
Subject(s): Money; Rivers; Wall Street, New York City


WALL STREET, by ROBERT WINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Getting money, not poems
Last Line: %can never deny me %its voice
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Wall Street, New York City


WALL STREET WAIL, by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up and down where wall street is a - rumbling
Last Line: But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing.
Subject(s): Wall Street, New York City


WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the bad bews came slowly and was afraid
Last Line: For the ice truck, buried the dead, called it home
Subject(s): Washington Heights, New York City; Childhood Memories


WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sublime, where traffic's billows beat
Last Line: Their father blesses them.
Subject(s): Love; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Wall Street, New York City; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON SQUARE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the end of town I love the best
Last Line: The cross of light,—that looms from the sacred tower.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


WASHINGTON SQUARE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Starless and still
Last Line: She is thinking of me.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


WASHINGTON SQUARE, NORTH, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red-brick and sunny in a cheerful row
Last Line: Unsoiled, unwearied, when my day is done.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


WATER: CITY WILDLIFE AND GREENERY, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The most prolific seem to be imports:
Last Line: Hunger, begging, violence, early death. %spring gives some relief to this sad business.
Variant Title(s): A Call In The Midst Of The Crowd: April. Water: City Wildlife ..
Subject(s): New York City


WATERLILY FIRE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl grown woman ... Fire... Mother of fire
Subject(s): New York City; Fire; Life; Change; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


WE ARE SAILING OFF, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And a lovely drunkenness %washes over me
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE SPENT SUMMER AFTERNOONS CATCHING FLIES THAT HOVERED, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Spaghetti. Only now do I realize what the pink neon sign %read--wines
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE STOLE A SNAIL FROM THE OUTDOOR BASKETS IN FRONT OF THE, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Our fingers to see if it was home
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WE USE NEWSPAPER FOR A, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Food when I am older
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WEDDING, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wishes cover the red silk
Last Line: To make of the feast one nightblooming flower
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WELCOME TO CHINATOWN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Where happiness has resigned itself %to have tea every sunday afternoon
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WEST 58TH STREET, by MELVILLE CANE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight / from this high window
Last Line: Snarl and prey and devour.
Subject(s): New York City; Taxis; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


WEST FORTIES: MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On this hotel, their rumpled royalties
Last Line: In its black cage, funebrially slow, %to stygian forty-seventh street below
Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E.
Subject(s): New York City


WEST FOURTH STREET, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sycamores are leafing out
Subject(s): Imigrants; City & Town Life; Greenwich Village, New York City


WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GODS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Full often I have heard it said
Last Line: Repeat their old olympic labors.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet
Last Line: To broadway as a country road.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History


WHEN MY DOMESTIC STUNT-DOUBLE STOPPED SHOWING UP, by STACEY FRUITS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I auditioned for the part of mafia princess
Last Line: Bobbing brightly, face down, on the surface
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; New York City


WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From our high window we saw the towers
Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


WHEN THE WATER IN THE POT IS, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Water is singing a song
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WHERE IS THE COCKROACH WHO LEFT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Its footprint on my bowl?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WHERE YOU WANT TO BE, by KEVIN PILKINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You wake early again
Last Line: Her hungry and ready %to eat the sky
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


WHISTLES AT NIGHT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night in the city when the far-off whistles blow
Last Line: And the dawn comes slow.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Memory; Night; Parks; Streets; Bedtime; Avenues


WILLIAM THE TESTY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afar in the ages of quaint renown
Last Line: That governs the town of new amsterdam!
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Kieft, Willem (1597-1647); New York City - Dutch Period; Politics; Quarrels; Politicians; Political Poetry; Arguments; Disagreements


WINTER FESTIVAL, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unearthing a new voice
Last Line: Our rice pot so full %its lid won't stay put
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WINTER WIND SITS IN THE LIVING ROOM, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What do we wear when we go outside?
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


WINTER WORDS, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day after day in a high room between
Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); City & Town Life


WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed
Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The


WINTRY PARIS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, the dingy winter days"
Last Line: When contrasted with the blues I had in paris
Subject(s): "new York City;paris, France;winter;" "manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;


WISHBONES, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flesh we wore so long ago
Last Line: Mornings after %godspeed to all ghosts
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)


WITH MY BACK TO CITY HALL, ON YOM KIPPUR, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gnats love the highway dividers,
Subject(s): New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


WIZARD'S WELL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trudchen! Trudchen!' teased the maids
Last Line: Tell me -- did that wish come true?
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Kisses; New York City - Dutch Period


WOMEN'S ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by KATE DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Covered with rags and cardboard and nothing
Last Line: Carrying away its cargo of men
Subject(s): Homeless; Lavatories; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Women


WORDS READ BY LIGHTNING, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Big silver raucous stem
Last Line: Already full %with what is
Subject(s): Cities; New York City


WOUTER VAN TWILLER, 1633, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When wouter van twiller sailed over the sea
Last Line: The image of grasping old wouter van twiller.
Subject(s): New York City; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Van Twiller, Wouter [walter] (1580-1646); Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


YJUANAS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not an iguana that isn't drawn up
Last Line: A place that can never be told in words
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Reptiles


YO VIVO EN EL BARRIO CHINO, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Times when chinatown is the %only place to live...
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


YOUNG MAN DRESSED IN WHITE IS A BARBER AT, by FRANCES CHUNG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Smiles and walks away in the direction of the %men's room. You are on the way to lima
Subject(s): Chinatown, New York City; Lower East Side, New York City


YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever?
Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies!
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners


YUPPIE INVESTMENT BROKER, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: How hard you worked for wall street cash
Last Line: The blue chips of your fantasy
Subject(s): Investments; Wall Street, New York City


ZENGER THE PRINTER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zenger the printer, through storm and stress
Last Line: Bulwark of freedom, a fearless press!
Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; New York City - Colonial Period; Politics & Government; Printing & Printers; Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746); Attorneys


ZEPP, by GEOFFREY R. BARTHOLOMEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I did a liddle a dis %a liddle a dat
Last Line: I drink an' tink of my old man
Subject(s): Mcsorley's Pub (new York City)